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See also:
The Ultralight Hiker - Hauroko Burn, Dusky Track, Fiordland NZ
27-09-2023: Reflections on Dan: “By gnawing through a dike even a rat may drown a nation.” Edmund Burke
27-09-2023: The success of ‘Snus’. Sweden often gets it right on health issues – as the covid ‘experiment’ also shows: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/snus/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020230926%20%20GK&utm_content=MDS%20%2020230926%20%20GK+CID_245f434cef69e1d83266d6c73595e473&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=explains%20the%20success https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/snus/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MDS%20%2020230926%20%20GK&utm_content=MDS%20%2020230926%20%20GK+CID_245f434cef69e1d83266d6c73595e473&utm_source=CampaignMonitor_Australia&utm_term=explains%20the%20success
27-09-2023: Apparently this is what the world will be like in 250 million years. What are we worrying about today? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03005-6?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=nature&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2cSue-d9zeOyBxteg_Bra9cljhBgTeEVCoebFI8crp7YXRiA9pl_J41yE#Echobox=1695657298-1
27-09-2023: Can’t wait to see or conservative leaders in Oz wake up to the reality that ‘climate’ policies are unpopular and promise to wind back ‘decarbonisation’ – maybe build us a few new HELE (High Energy Low Emissions) coal-fired power stations so we can have cheap electricity again: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/the-european-rebellion-against-the-sacred-quest-for-netzero-spreads-green-investors-are-reeling/
27-09-2023: AI girlfriends are ruining an entire generation of
men. (The numbers are frightening) “While
the concept of an AI girlfriend may seem like a joke, it really isn’t that
funny. It is enabling a generation of lonely men to stay lonely and childless,
which will have devastating effects on the U.S.
26-09-2023: Lightest 5000mAh Power Bank: Lightsmith have
recently utilised the 21700 Lithium
battery to make perhaps the most compact and lightest (at 73.5 grams) 5ooo
mAh power bank. These batteries are available to 5800 mAh so expect some improvements
still.They are selling for US$22 (Sep 2023). Read
More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/09/25/lightest-5000mah-power-bank/
26-09-2023: They
are using your money (banks, superannuation, insurance companies etc) to ruin
your future. You can at least switch your super to self-managed
(as we did years ago). There are no fees. I do my own tax and the audit costs
us around $440 per year. As well, we get to decide what we invest our money in
– win or lose: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/giant-australian-retirement-funds-are-being-corporate-climate-bullies-with-your-money/
26-09-2023: Just a reminder of how badly rigged the 2020 US election was – but the truth will out, and the perpetrators eventually be brought to justice: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/pollster-rasmussen-says-election-fraud-renders-scientific-election/ & https://richardsonpost.com/howellwoltz/33084/michigan-not-certified-in-2020-election/
26-09-2023:
How did people ever fall for the ‘noble savage’
nonsense? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/book-excerpt/2023/09/romancing-the-primitive-an-important-new-book/
25-09-2023: Warm Feet Warm Heart. Duck down camp shoes $28: Isn't
there a saying something like that? In any case
for many years we have used some Goosefeet Down Sox
(which I highly recommend) which cost US$69 (Sep 2023) and roughly one ounce
(28 grams each -twice that per pair) in Size Medium US 9s. They are very fine
quality and toasty warm being filled with 850 fill power down. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/09/24/warm-feet-warm-heart/
25-09-2023: So many reasons not
to buy an Electric Car. They are so bad they have to have been invented by
an ‘environmentalist’ : https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4184473/posts
25-09-2023: Archaeological (Mis)appropriation.
This may not turn out to be evidence of human occupation at 120,000 years ago
but even if it did there is nothing (and will never be anything) linking those
humans to anyone living today – any more than any modern human can ‘lay claim’
to the rock art of Europe, Israel etc which is also very ancient. People come
and go. That has always been the case. : https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-05/moyjil-coastal-site-at-warrnambool-of-global-indigenous-heritage/12629934
25-09-2023: Confessions of a Red Guard. This is
what our ‘education’ system today is turning young people into – leftist eco
terrorists: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/15/asia/china-cultural-revolution-red-guard-confession/index.html
24-09-2023: The war on smoking has been lost: “Extreme retail prices at
legitimate outlets are not really reducing smoking in the community, just
masking it by pushing tens of thousands of smokers into the black market. …the incidence of nicotine in
24-09-2023: You said it Pete – let’s make more Aussies
ourselves instead of importing second-rate ones – it’s
good clean fun too: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw/peter-costello-says-more-babies-not-immigration-is-what-australia-needs/news-story/ecc3037c375ebeab4e42a43bb9d19e65
24-09-2023: Can the environment survive ‘the
transition’ to ‘green power’? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12545855/Devastating-transition-green-energy-metal-mining-23-million-people-toxic-waste-rivers-polluted-farmland.html
24-09-2023: The awful ‘culture’ that ‘The Voice’ seeks to preserve and reinforce.
Such a ‘culture’ needs to be swept from the earth: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/jacinta-price-explores-the-chilling-cold-case-of-her-relative-who-went-missing-as-a-fifteenyearold-41-years-ago-in-new-documentary/news-story/9bf1464712331c69afc6c77747e68693
23-09-2023: 5G via space - Some competition soon for
satellite phones and Starlink: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2023/09/19/first-ever-5g-to-space-14-mbps-between-smartphone-and-satellite-equals-competition-for-starlink/amp/?fbclid=IwAR0Q3o5ty5N02cm5M3zxMuy4ucO_yJoY4lFv7Ts1JGptJK1HGbgSlmHSaVc
23-09-2023: And ‘they’ said we could not learn anything from history, This is quite a structure to have been fashioned by
‘primitive’ men: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06557-9?fbclid=IwAR0RK4RSUSfvdTlQ5hUO_3xMegADNWO2AjDu08fiUnjqG3XLV7HQfwGdS3U
23-09-2023: We will soon run out of water, gas and electricity in
23-09-2023: I totally agree with Sam Newman. We should “Start booing or slow hand clapping”
whenever they force one of these rude and demeaning ‘welcome to country’
ceremonies on us: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/afl/article-12538667/Sam-Newman-welcome-country-boo-AFL-grand-final.html?ito=social-facebook_Australia&fbclid=IwAR1bZdGNpEkI9jplC6XCoO0NjjDgyHh5lLF4OJklWKCN0h_0O6HVxphiw9M
This woke b------t just doesn’t resonate with any ordinary Aussie. He has a
better idea. Let’s sing The Seekers’ 1987 hit song 'I am
Australian' instead: : https://www.rebelnews.com/sam_newman_shares_his_new_unifying_plan_to_drown_out_divisive_welcome_to_country
22-09-2023: Thank goodness we still have people like
Gerald Rennick in our Parliament. We can do something after all about the tide
of communism which threatens to overwhelm us. We need to install more such
people and end the hegemony of the Liberal-Labor-Green alliance which denies us
choice, control over our own lives and freedom which ought to be the hallmarks
of democracy: .https://gerardrennick.com.au/the-native-title-act-needs-review/
22-09-2023: Happiness begins at 70 – I have found this
to be (largely) true, though I have had an indecent amount of happiness for
a very long time actually: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fstudyfinds.org%2Fwhat-age-peak-happiness%2F
22-09-2023: It had to happen; Woman diagnosed with
‘climate change’: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwdDS73thU1/
22-09-2023: Bring it on for osteoarthritis too please – I am so over it: https://newatlas.com/medical/inverse-vaccine-reverses-autoimmune-diseases/
21-09-2023: Ian Callinan’s thoughts on the ‘Voice’ are an absolute bombshell.
He is a retired Judge of the High Court so he is an expert in how the
constitution is interpreted. We have been lied to comprehensively about what it
means. It is by no means innocuous or symbolic. It is clear that voting for the Voice will give aborigines total
control of our seas from the low tide mark outwards and require that they be
paid ½ of its freehold value for every piece of land in
21-09-2023: The ’modern’ version of gladiatorial combat for young women: https://www.thefp.com/p/watching-girls-die-online?utm_campaign=email-post&r=2k67t&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
21-09-2023: So, is anything killing koalas? I suspect they are much like that
other poster child of the Green movement, polar bears whose numbers have simply
exploded: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2023/09/koalas-too-cute-for-their-own-good/
21-09-2023: The
20-09-2023:
20-09-2023: Denigrating women who just want to be women: https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/australian-sex-discrimination-commissioners-disgraceful-gender-agenda-is-bad-news-for-women-who-dont-want-to-identify-as-anything-else/news-story/b5634f034ffde9db84025366b5961105
20-09-2023: As if a black Ann Boleyn wasn’t enough: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/51308
20-09-2023: I usually take the BOM’s seasonal forecast to indicate exactly the
opposite conditions – and I am usually right! “Hidden in the small
print on the ABC site, but not mentioned on the nightly news, is that El
Nino’s don’t always create widespread drought, and that the models are
sometimes wrong, and the slow development of this years event “might limit its
strength”.” Anyway, ‘One swallow doesn’t
make a summer’ https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/let-the-mind-games-begin-scorching-summer-of-brutal-bushfire-hell-is-in-the-news-before-it-even-happens/
19-09-2023: Wind farms will completely exterminate our wedge tailed eagles (soon)
plus lots of other rare birds – and are killing whales too. Let’s please
build some conventional power stations instead like High Energy Low Emission
(HELE) coal fired power stations like the 350
19-09-2023: “A restoration of
history, in all its complexity, is critical to escaping the polarized, rigid,
and often insane political environment we now inhabit”: https://quillette.com/2023/09/14/history-matters/
19-09-2023: Why would you have ever thought that drugs were good for you? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/brutal-marijuana-studies-now-emerging-never-fully-legalized/
19-09-2023: Scouts long ago lost the plot. Baden-Powell ,
the hero of
18-08-2023: Too bad if you love your lawn mower: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/democratic-governor-signs-executive-order-requiring-mass-replacement/
18-08-2023: The UN has
zero effect on ‘solving’ real world problems but it keeps on pumping away at
’climate change’ and the ‘new world order’ and stealing every last freedom we
still have. Abolish it now: https://news.yahoo.com/world-disappointed-un-now-looks-130000339.html
18-08-2023: I know cyclists
are annoying, but who should be in charge of the death penalty – runaway teens
or the law? Not so long ago we would have hung people like this from the
nearest tree. Bring back the lash and the rope, please – and soon: https://moonbattery.com/the-story-of-the-century-if-only/
18-08-2023: You wanted
to ban cigarette smoking and legalise marijuana? https://moonbattery.com/marijuana-will-hurt-you-and-they-want-you-to-smoke-it/
17-08-2023: John Howard Payne (1823)
This is a song for an opera, Clari.
Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there
Which seek thro' the world, is ne'er met elsewhere
Home! Home!
Sweet, sweet home!
There's no place like home
There's no place like home!
An exile from home splendor dazzles in vain
Oh give me my lowly thatched cottage again
The birds singing gaily that came at my call
And gave me the peace of mind dearer than all
Home, home, sweet, sweet home
There's no place like home, there's no place like home!
17-08-2023: The invasion of
17-08-2023: Thought provoking – Are we repaganising? https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/10/we-are-repaganizing
17-08-2023: Of course; ‘one man one vote’ has long been an Australian principle
even if nowadays we might say, ‘One person’. For this reason alone there should
not be a separate (racially based) election or House. For just the same
reason there ought not be ‘dual citizenship’ which
allows people to vote in two separate jurisdictions. Make up your mind where
your loyalties lie. They ought, properly be to ‘One Australia’: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/09/16/a-surprising-number-of-votes-or-not/
17-08-2023: The ultimate wilderness cabin – well done guys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGxsoHSKigg
16-08-2023: How a lack of available men is leading to a decline in the birth rate:
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fbooks%2Farchive%2F2023%2F09%2Fegg-freezing-motherhood-on-ice-marcia-inhorn-book-review%2F675316%2F
16-08-2023: Stating the obvious. Of course it did Jacinta, but brave of you to say
so: https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/betrayalindigenous-senator-jacinta-prices-claim-splits-the-nation/news-story/dbde34ce0f7de0e0bfdd80d19dbead4c
16-08-2023: Patriot Switch – a way to buy goods without the leftist propaganda. https://patriotswitch.com/index.php
We need something like this in Oz to counter the influence of the woke
corporations like Apple whose latest ad is ‘cringeworthy’ https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/apple-advertising-goes-full-climate-cult/
15-08-2023: ET. Are they fakes – or what? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/scientists-present-two-alleged-mummified-alien-corpses-three/
15-08-2023: “Seven million
people from all over the world have climbed Ayers Rock”, but no more. The truth about climbing
this Aussie icon: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/08-online/193203/
15-08-2023: Is there still an organization interested in teaching boys to become
men? https://pjmedia.com/culture/athena-thorne/2023/09/10/trail-life-usa-celebrates-10-years-of-picking-up-where-bsa-left-off-n1725825#google_vignette
15-08-2023: You will have nothing and you will be happy: https://www.rebelnews.com/australian_government_urged_to_introduce_controversial_inheritance_tax
14-08-2023: 2500 years of ‘climate change’ reveal the past was much more variable
than the present: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/2500-years-of-wild-climate-change-in-southern-europe-it-was-warmer-in-roman-times-than-now/
14-08-2023: Do we really want to give all our public lands away forever to racists
who will exclude almost everyone from them? https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/08-online/193203/ & https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/race-based-land-grabs-must-end/
14-08-2023: And why wouldn’t they? I have been very happy with my lovely wife for
over fifty years: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/passport-bros-feminists-are-outraged-men-going-overseas-find-traditional-wives
14-08-2023: Kennedy assassination. Decades later there are still ‘mysteries’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/resurfaced-interviews-jfk-assassination-nurse-back-up-former/
13-08-2023: Ultracheap Packraft: What's not to like about this? A Naturehike Packraft for less than A$600 - or a double for A$830 (Sept 2023). Aliexpress is great. This is a big saving over other brands which come in now at twice or more than three times that! See More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/09/12/ultracheap-packraft/
13-08-2023: P.J. O’Rourke :‘If you think health care is expensive now, wait
until you see what it costs when it’s free.’ https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/too-much-free-stuff/
13-08-2023: Good on you Winston Peters – and if the Maori are not indigenous to
13-08-2023: The science says there is no ‘climate emergency’: https://www.scribd.com/document/670411341/1600-Scientists-Signatures-on-this-paper-There-Is-No-Climate-Emergency#from_embed
12-08-2023: Hooray! Sir Henry
Parkes, the father of Federation, said: “At some time we must unite as one great
Australian people” https://richardsonpost.com/cliff-reece/32981/australia-pushback-at-activist-lies/
12-08-2023: Read every word Bess Price, a true aboriginal woman, says here: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/09/brilliant-article-about-the-voice-by-bess-nungarrayi-price-i-urge-you-to-read-and-share-it.html
12-08-2023: The earth has no average temperature. This is (the) climate reality: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/09/the_earth_has_no_average_temperature.html
12-08-2023: Our ‘secure’ modern world is far more fragile than you would hope: https://daily.jstor.org/the-carrington-event-of-1859-disrupted-telegraph-lines/
11-08-2023: How good is wind power? https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/09/02/windwatching-sept-2023/
11-08-2023: Who would want to give up their car in order to add 13 minutes to
their life expectancy? How far can you drive in 13 miutes in
11-08-2023: Ominous –
11-08-2023: Trump is not the only hope for the world: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/its-a-1775-moment-says-vivak-ramaswamy-but-the-deep-state-is-a-machine-we-are-up-against/
09-08-2023: The rent seekers are out in force after every bit of cash they can
get. Damn them (to put it mildly): https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/its-just-bs-former-pm-tony-abbott-rubbishes-aboriginal-land-claim-over-land-adjacent-to-balmoral-beach/news-story/b3a0bd5b62b94651434282386592df5c
09-08-2023: He certainly was the best PM since Menzies at very least: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/tony-abbotts-record-of-achievement/
09-08-2023: Who’d have thought? https://www.rebelnews.com/nt_indigenous_leader_says_majority_of_aboriginal_people_don_t_support_voice_to_parliament
09-08-2023: What is ‘emotional labour’ and should you eschew it? https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/what-is-emotional-labor?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1523886&post_id=136848005&isFreemail=true&r=l9hpt&utm_medium=email
08-08-2023: Maybe
08-08-2023: Good on you John, but will ‘the truth set us free’ “We need
to realise that indigenous people don’t suffer from the lack of a Voice, or
voices, but a lack of solutions to the cycle of fatherlessness, domestic
violence, substance abuse and poor education that grips certain communities. “https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/09/what-possible-gain-in-dividing-the-nation/
08-08-2023: Justice delayed: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/lady-of-the-dunes-cold-case-finally-solved-after-50-years/news-story/a8233fc622a3935efb1ff98b56d87be5
08-08-2023: Global boiling – taking a longer view: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/05/uks-global-boiling-summer-was-as-hot-as-1857/
07-08-2023: I wonder whether this is happening here too: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/robert-kennedy-jr-blackrock-is-robbing-americans-ability/
07-08-2023: Green dystopia, green panopticon; Now your
love for your old fridge might land you in gaol: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/now-the-uk-government-wants-to-control-your-kitchen-fridge-or-send-you-to-jail/
07-08-2023: In case you wondered why we now have gay marriage (and a multitude of
other evils which have followed from it): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/09/sex-drugs-barack-obama-tucker-carlson-interviews-larry/
07-08-2023: You don’t say! Cause or effect: https://www.psypost.org/2023/09/older-adults-who-regularly-use-the-internet-have-half-the-risk-of-dementia-compared-to-non-regular-users-183597?utm_source=PsyPost+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7dd5400519-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a44dd6ef29-7dd5400519-127440501
05-08-2023: An (unsung) Australian Hero: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/09/australian-hero-of-the-resistance/
05-08-2023: Just when you thought you had gotten away with it: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/01/europe/germany-98-year-old-nazi-guard-intl/index.html
05-08-2023: An epidemic of ‘buyer’s remorse’ with EVs: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.motorbiscuit.com%2Fprices-of-used-electric-cars-are-frefalling%2F The
price of used EVs is in free-fall: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/buyer-s-remorse-why-are-20-of-early-ev-adopters-now-defecting-to-internal-combustion/ar-AA1gdLUa
05-08-2023: Do you really want CPR – disturbing reading: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/the-hidden-harms-of-cpr
04-08-2023: “People will grow to love their oppression, to adore the technologies
that undo their capacities to think” Aldous Huxley.
04-08-2023: Come off it Dutton!
Is this ‘being half pregnant’ or ‘creating the truth’? Whilst there is no
doubting that human beings have been present in
04-08-2023: And the very worst thing really is that these poor kids are being
deprived of a sex life altogether – and that’s not harm? “Also,
so-called transgenderism is being used to erase gays and lesbians. Effeminate
boys are being told that, rather than being homosexuals, they’re girls. To
achieve that, they’re being chemically castrated and surgically mutilated.
Meanwhile, masculine girls are being told that, rather than being lesbians,
they’re boys, after which they’re chemically sterilized and surgically
mutilated. No anti-gay movement could have done a better job of erasing
homosexuality than the transgender cult.“ https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/09/a_distraught_transgender_persons_video_brings_important_truths_to_light.html
04-08-2023: Preparing yourself for long covid – sinister warning: https://richardsonpost.com/david-archibald/32887/covid-start-antivirals-sooner-rather-than-later/
03-08-2023: “The purpose of compulsory education is to deprive the common people
of their commonsense” G..K. Chesterton.
03-08-2023: We have encountered some in the Vic mountains
but…Where feral cows roam free: https://www.popsci.com/environment/feral-cow-island/
03-08-2023: Heat your home during the day when there is plenty of solar electricity
around. Also trending, “Let them eat cake’: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fpolitics%2F2023%2F08%2F26%2Fnew-net-zero-advice-turn-heating-up-only-during-the-day%2F
03-08-2023: I fear Peter Smith is right: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/08/19/democracy-in-its-death-throes/
02-08-2023: Do not forsake all hope Montag, there are
young people who are the hope of the world. Here’s one: https://www.thefp.com/p/free-press-high-school-essay-contest-winner?utm_source=substack&publication_id=260347&post_id=136521670&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=false
02-08-2023: Some good news: Reversing cancer – it can be done: https://www.sciencealert.com/aggressive-cancer-cells-transformed-into-healthy-cells-in-breakthrough
02-08-2023: Ramesh is right – we must never repeat the awful pandemic response we
have just had. Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine would have saved millions of
lives yet here they were banned. The people responsible for this ban should
be brought to justice and receive life sentences for murder. Likewise those who
caused so much harm and death by forcing an untried and dangerous vaccine upon
the public: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/09/ivermectin-makes-a-comeback/
02-08-2023: The AEMO is just
nuts.There will be major blackouts and unaffordable power. Nothing sensible
is being done about it – indeed the reverse. Bowen is committed to ‘extracting
sunbeams from cucumbers’ – as Gulliver put it. It is ridiculous that Della and
I are actively planning to spend tens of thousands of our own dollars to
prevent these consequences for us, but this is an inefficient and unreliable
way to proceed as compared with (the State or others) building large reliable
base load power stations, like coal or nuclear – nothing else currently
exists.: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/09/panic-now-the-australian-national-grid-manager-admits-blackouts-are-coming/
01-08-2023: And you thought you were dumb: https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/they-tried-to-conceive-for-years-turns-out-they-were-having-sex-all-wrong/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=nypost
01-08-2023: Well said, Mrs America 2023, “I have felt this feeling
seven times now as I bring these sacred souls to the earth. After I hold that
newborn baby in my arms, the feeling of motherhood and bringing them to the
earth is the most empowering feeling I have ever felt.”:
https://www.sportskeeda.com/pop-culture/news-who-hannah-neeleman-all-south-dakota-mrs-american-2023-pro-life-response-wins-hearts
01-08-2023: Justice is slow but it does sometimes happen - though I can think of a
more appropriate punishment for monsters like this: https://rmx.news/crime/german-isis-bride-who-left-5-year-old-yazidi-slave-girl-to-die-of-thirst-in-midday-sun-jailed-for-14-years/
01-08-2023: Just awful. Heresy trials are back
world-wide: https://thecritic.co.uk/on-trial-for-a-question/
31-08-2023: Remember when we used to warn our children not to talk to strangers? Maybe
this was why: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/kidnappers-caught-act-heroic-truck-driver-rescues-15/
31-08-2023: Gary Johns (Labor ex Minister) is right: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/terrific-common-sense-on-albaneses-vanity-voice-from-labors-gary-johns.html
31-08-2023: Just imagine A$25 a day tax on driving your
old car – the only type you can afford or have ever afforded (if you are
like us, ie most people). Yet this is London 2023. You would vote for this? You
did vote for this? Economic rights in a capitalist country have always been our
most important rights (way ahead of ‘representative democracy’) but now they
are being snatched away as we ‘subsidise the richest people’s dreams of
renewables, indigenous rights, trans rights etc, etc: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/london-wakes-up-to-the-nightmare-on-ulez-this-net-zero-bill-cant-be-hidden-and-the-people-are-furious/
31-08-2023: Beware Oz. The
30-08-2023: Just maybe it would be nice if we all had a ‘Voice’. ‘Representative’
democracy is seriously flawed. Our ‘representatives’ clearly don’t. Almost
universally they advocate minority opinion. We should go back to Direct
Democracy’ as in ancient
30-08-2023: Monkeys shouldn’t be drinking in the first
place: https://bigthink.com/health/gene-therapy-monkeys-alcoholism/
30-08-2023: Unintended consequences: https://moonbattery.com/democrats-hand-trump-black-votes/
30-08-2023: Disgusting! No-one should be ashamed of
wearing their country’s uniform, but they certainly should be ashamed of being
forced to identify with homosexuals: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/young-soldiers-ordered-to-wear-purple-to-celebrate-gays.html
29-08-2023: Is there life after death? You decide: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/07/a-j-ayer-and-the-meaning-of-life/
& https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ive-studied-more-5-000-133633458.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRpemVuZnJlZXByZXNzLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADsqm-abmksIVcGZoHT8_ISNtsH8mwnDo9NXepYxrSXjUNkQ2aaR5j4akA4HjYRG0BqQZ6jTyJ0VuxShZtOqC6kkM60vVFLSVkzUHp5Roout65OzQ9V0_3LcfpfOBcmo891F7N7KhZnjwmbRwlra2KwQgQZ71lSnVVRsi3Rh6BAo
29-08-2023: Such nonsense we are told about ‘the aging
of the population’ yet ‘In
1700, if you made it to age 25, you had a good chance to make your 80s barring
farm accidents.’ http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37792-Life-expectancy.html
29-08-2023: Eight truths that the mugshot reveals: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/the_mugshot_heard_round_the_world_eight_truths_that_the_mugshot_reveals.html
29-08-2023: Yay! “Prime Minister Meloni is the most successful world leader – male or
female – of our time, and the left despises her for it because they know
that she is not only inspiring others by example, but opening millions of eyes
to the maleficence and corruption of the left which has devastated the
disenfranchised and working-class for years.” https://www.skynews.com.au/insights-and-analysis/no-wonder-theyre-losing-their-minds-lefts-reign-of-totalitarian-incompetence-coming-to-an-end-thanks-to-giorgia-melonis-success-story/news-story/2f540fe8e2f1f5ac50fa1889a116e509
28-08-2023: ‘The
Thief His Wife And The Canoe’ is the story of fraudster John Darwin and his wife Anne who unsuccessfully
faked his own death (for years) in order to defraud insurance companies. As
we watched this (forgettable) documentary (couldn’t face the ‘dramatisation’
which followed) we became more and more certain that the allegation in Murders
in the Outback’ that Falconio and Lees faked his own death (credible
independent witnesses saw him ‘after his death and he had previously expressed
an intention to just so defraud insurance) and that an innocent if somewhat
revolting human being (Brad Murdoch) has been in gaol for a very long while for
his supposed murder.
28-08-2023: De-industrialising
28-08-2023: You said it brother: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/23/german-scientists-global-warming-a-corrupt-fear-mongering-scheme-headed-by-super-rich/
28-08-2023: So, how good are those paper straws (for the
environment) apart from their foul taste and that you go through 2-3 of them
every drink. Well, terrible actually & unsurprisingly: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/paper-straws-have-forever-chemicals-that-may-be-worse-for-us-and-the-environment-than-plastic/
27-08-2023: We should know where MH370 is by now: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/clue-could-finally-reveal-location-of-doomed-flight-mh370/news-story/ccd2153a1af1e062d8b5ba562f30b796
27-08-2023: When the lunatics are running the asylum: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-iceberg-looms-as-chris-bowens-green-plans-sink/news-story/5f3ebe03e3548e0e3b382744903f720c
27-08-2023: The ‘joys’ of unrestricted immigration: https://www.statista.com/statistics/283100/recorded-rape-offences-in-england-and-wales/
27-08-2023: Even if it was under his arm the fine is clearly stupid, intrusive and
onerous. The seat belt legislation is anyway just an
26-08-2023: How capitalism liberates: The
26-08-2023: Unbelievable: https://notthebee.com/article/german-daycares-introduces-sexual-exploration-rooms-freedom-childish-sexuality
26-08-2023: Free Speech Now: The EU has already enacted this internet censorship
and our government in Oz has an identical bill before it at the moment. This is
the largest scale totalitarian move against freedom of speech and information
in world history: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/the-eus-orwellian-internet-censorship-regime/
26-08-2023: Imagine how quickly the ‘climate crisis’ would evaporate if the so-called
‘scientists’ were paid to find there was no problem (ie climate reality)
instead of the opposite.
25-08-2023: Economics 101: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/08/23/the-concept-of-crowding-out-and-the-dangers-of-untrammeled-government-spending-of-opm/
25-08-2023: Kiss My Feet – Or Else’. Islam’s growing demands. We import these
people at our extreme peril: https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2023/08/23/kiss-my-feet-or-else-islams-growing-demands-n1721416
25-08-2023: This piece by Labor ex-Minister Gary Johns is a must-read. Today’s
faux aborigines are the most dreadful rent-seekers who also strive to keep real
(outback) aborigines from advancing and integrating into our society as their
own ancestors (and probably yours and mine too) clearly did: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/08-online/intergenerational-trauma-and-all-that/
25-08-2023: If the
24-08-2023: Maybe I’ll buy a guitar too: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/getting-grumpy-should-i-buy-a-guitar/
24-08-2023: The 40 cities who will ban meat, dairy, cars, air travel etc by 2030. You want this?: https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2023/08/22/14-american-cities-agree-to-go-full-marxist-end-dairy-meat-and-cars-by-2030-n1721063
24-08-2023: Don’t mess with Putin: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/putin_plays_for_keeps.html
24-08-2023: At last the man in the moon sounds like
Spike Milligan: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/breaking-india-lands-chandraayan-3-lunar-south-pole/
23-08-2023: Worth a try: Foxlights: https://www.foxlightsaustralia.com.au/buy-foxlights/
23-08-2023: “Why do we have a
tiny segment of our population totally reliant, generation by generation, on
taxpayers for all of their needs even as they deliver lectures about how
uncaring — indeed, callous in the most racist way — are their fellow citizens?”
: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/australia/2023/08/its-equality-not-dna-that-makes-an-australian/
23-08-2023: Nurse Letby is not the only medico afflicted with the ‘God Delusion’
though. For example, during the so-called ‘covid pandemic’ like medicos and
their running dogs actually murdered millions with their banning of effective
treatments, lock-downs which produced a suicide epidemic, compulsory
‘vaccination’ which was more dangerous than the disease itself & etc. They
also did this knowingly but (being Gods) they expect to escape the same
punishment as this nurse, ie life without parole. I think Andrews and Sutton
(for two) ought to receive a like sentence: https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-66573845
23-08-2023: These clowns (who
annually burn down millions of acres) can’t see the wood for the trees. In about
a month they have managed to collect about enough to have a very basic barbecue
yet they envisage it as an ‘ecological disaster, lamenting what the poor
echidnas will do when they want play ‘Pick up Sticks’. Bloody eco loons: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-21/hiking-sticks-carnarvon-national-park-rangers-environment-qld/102755076?fbclid=IwAR1_RwC_HPOS_M_AMJovcabTT0WVJT0X6As9HntzFsktHbOBDEO1va_DAQ8
22-08-2023: What an interesting idea. This might work for us. We have 100 metres
of head on our small farm. I have been toying with the idea of a small pumped hydro
storage system as a way of utilizing excess solar or wind energy anyway: https://newatlas.com/energy/waterless-high-density-hydro/
22-08-2023: The DIY Lego house: https://www.gablok.com/en
22-08-2023: The Left have no sense of humour – and cannot bear the truth: https://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/violent-black-men-comedian-slammed-for-cpac-speech-mocking-traditional-owners/news-story/aa8163fa0431f4bff71add1aa420aeb1
22-08-2023: Criticizing people on welfare isn’t un-Christian. See Thessalonians: “For even when we were with you, this we commanded you: that if any would not work, neither should he eat.” https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/2%20Thessalonians%203:10
21-08-2023: Is this Bigfoot? https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/incredible-bigfoot-video-leaves-sceptics-stunned/news-story/eb69eb5fb62436cd18d583f787ed16ed
21-08-2023: The cashless society
just gives Government (Big Brother) too much power over us: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/getting-grumpy-should-i-buy-a-guitar/
21-08-2023: But ‘scientists’ say
that the sun can’t be responsible for our weather: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-clouds-neptune.html
21-08-2023: When furries attack: https://moonbattery.com/furry-attack-on-public-beach/
20-08-2023: Converting Hiking Poles to Tent Poles: I have fiddled with this before but without a really satisfactory result which meets every need. It is easy enough if you have adjustable poles or the type which one section from another pole can be added to the first one but the method below works whatever type of poles you have.
I have played around with interesting uses for rubber bands and inner tubes before so I have plenty of spare material lying around.
Here I have cut two approx 12" x 3/4" strips from a heavy duty car inner tube which was much more suitable for making the lightweight shoes really. The strips work out about 15 grams each. If I locate a motorcycle inner tube or even a pushbike one I can probably get closer to half this - which I will. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/08/19/converting-hiking-poles-to-tent-poles/
20-08-2023: Ancient Mariners – to
Crete 130,000 years ago and to various islands in
20-08-2023: We have a few spots
nearly as good as this in
20-08-2023: Fascinating. Biology
is all around us yet after centuries of study we are no closer to understanding
it: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/biological-vitalism-or-what-is-life
19-08-2023: Who would have even thought this was a thing? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/top-u-s-doctor-group-wants-taxpayers-fund/
19-08-2023: Surely what murderers are supposed to look like: https://nypost.com/2023/08/16/heavily-tatted-man-50-accused-charged-with-girlfriends-murder/
19-08-2023: Soon no-one will be able to afford a home – what do we
have a government for? https://richardsonpost.com/paulzanetti/32769/a-homeless-and-housing-crisis-of-our-governments-own-making/
19-08-2023: The real
18-08-2023: Arctic exploration the easy way: https://twitter.com/CitizenFreePres/status/1692236750033162569
18-08-2023: You may come to wish that ‘your’ ancestors’ (allegedly) genocidal
policies had not failed so miserably. Enough of this nonsense: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/the-death-of-democracy-victorias-hush-hush-indigenous-agreements/
18-08-2023: Maybe you still think the US did not have a coup d’etat back in Nov
2020 but the fate of the Jan 6 protesters ought to convince even the most
skeptical – how can this be happening in the ’home of democracy’? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/national-disgrace-photos-leaked-horrific-january-6-prisoner/
18-08-2023: The rise of a vile kind of warfare we thought we banned a couple of
generations ago: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/rfk-jnr-were-developing-bioweapons-with-36000-scientists/
I suspect
this may be good advice – anyway I will be taking it: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/dont-rely-government-stockpile-critical-medications-now/
17-08-2023: We should not have a Ministry of Truth. We should be able to decide
what we take as true –as we always have, not Big Brother: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/the-acma-ministry-of-misinformation-will-fine-australians-6m-for-publishing-the-truth/
17-08-2023: What is wrong with the Libs (& the Nats)? Aren’t they supposed to
represent the views of conservative voters? My own local MP is banging on
about the ‘virtues’ of a proposed offshore windfarm here instead of advocating
for a new coal fired power station: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/state-libs-go-cuckoo/
17-08-2023: In fact tens of thousands of climate scientists cast doubt on the
theory of ‘global warming’ yet we throw away billions on this dubious
hypothesis: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/16/there-is-no-climate-crisis1600-scientists-worldwide-nobel-prize-laureate-sign-declaration/
17-08-2023: Trump is being charged with casting doubt on the 2020 election results
(a view shared by more than 50% of Americans actually) but in fact there was
election fraud. For example, https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1691228480556429312
16-08-2023: Seriously good news: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/revolutionary-implants-can-restore-20-20-vision-to-the-blind-and-visually-impaired
16-08-2023: Ford says the hard part out loud: https://prospect.org/economy/2023-07-31-ford-electric-cars-arent-affordable/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Ford+Says+Electric+Cars+Just+Aren+t+Affordable+%7C+Prospect+Weekend+Reads&utm_campaign=Weekend+Prospect+Reads+08042023
16-08-2023: Things haven’t changed much with the weather in 120 years after all: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/no-changes-in-global-droughts-since-1902-when-horses-and-carts-were-common/
16-08-2023: I like girls but this is just nuts: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/is-bhp-discrimining-against-men
15-08-2023: The ‘Walking Tree’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratea_exorrhiza
15-08-2023: ‘Progress’ in aboriginal land ownership: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/the-horrors-of-native-title-you-will-own-nothing-and-you-will-be-happy/
15-08-2023: And we worry about plastic bags: https://www.space.com/worlds-largest-asteroid-impact-structure-in-australia
15-08-2023: So many problems could be solved with more euthanasia: https://moonbattery.com/final-solution-to-socialized-medicine-wait-times/
14-08-2023: Is
14-08-2023: Unfortunately I fear Peter Smith is right – we have become a communist
state. Hopefully we can behave as bravely and resolutely as the Hungarians in
1956: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2023/08/the-voice-black-and-red-all-over/
14-08-2023: The vast majority of South Africans must long for the peace and
prosperity of the previous ‘apartheid’ regime: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/hate-speech/
14-08-2023: Giving new meaning to the phrase ‘Squatter’s Rights’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/handyman-devises-simple-system-legally-get-rid-squatters/
13-08-2023: Vargo Pocket Cleats: Tractional security just got even lighter. The new version of Vargo's ultralight crampons weigh a little over one ounce each (32.6 grams) as compared with their previous version which was around twice that. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/08/12/vargo-pocket-cleats/
13-08-2023: A cogent argument (as usual) against EVs from the incomparable Matt
Ridley: https://www.mattridley.co.uk/blog/why-ill-be-buying-a-brand-new-petrol-car-just-before-the-2030-ban/
13-08-2023: Not letting truth get in the way of a ‘good
story’: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2023/08/australian-films-fade-to-blak/
13-08-2023: Why would you even bother to employ police? – Oh, we need them to
harass honest citizens: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12164829/Police-failed-solve-single-burglary-HALF-English-Welsh-neighbourhoods.html
12-08-2023: Testing the
12-08-2023: Is this the most chilling headline you have ever read? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/minnesota-will-no-longer-report-number-babies-who/
12-08-2023: At least 300,000 of
our 800,000 ‘Aborigines’ are fakes (according to ‘other aborigines’) – but
they would be the ones who got ‘The Voice’ you can bet. Enough
of this bizarre racist nonsense. We are all just Australians of the
human race who should be treated equally by the law and society: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-how-fake-aborigines-are-hurting-their-cause/news-story/26691d7ce1b67e0b18c06aa4a79f5704
12-08-2023: Of course it could just be an unfortunate coincidence; on the other
hand it could also be true. Strange times we live i: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/ron-johnson-claims-covid-was-pre-planned-elite/
11-08-2023: Good on you Gina: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/queensland/gina-rinehart-backs-gold-coast-bid-for-2026-commonwealth-games/news-story/3a6d0b2b4acb5ff522dde7ea4bd3e6b7
11-08-2023: Cancelling Traveller is a step too far – after too many such: Lee
was likely also
11-08-2023: Ain’t it the truth? Grow a pair guys. The people await:
https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-voice-debate-reveals-liberals-can-win-by-standing-up-for-their-values/news-story/2997280bf0d9c0f9b6ee7acc34fd6f27
11-08-2023: What’s not to like? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/09/virginia-life-is-good-and-getting-better/
10-08-2023: At last a mailbox which is (nearly) big enough: https://www.milkcan.com.au/letterboxes/picket-fence-letterbox/?fbclid=IwAR3bWJikrQMFP9Ao8kUpDpVcepdPJGlzZQEXBkzj6f2Q5mvEKuqU3qJBYqE
& https://www.milkcan.com.au/product/parcel-pal-2-parcel-mail-charcoal-merbau-pillar/?fbclid=IwAR2tBvOHgShOa3hgFCWfggd65s7BoCWSVvrU5pPKT-GFLf2nY25065rHAY8
10-08-2023: Such a great idea: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/new_data_shows_temperatures_above_86_f_begins_a_precipitous_decline_of_ev_performance.html
10-08-2023: The Decline of the West? https://moonbattery.com/muslim-woman-wants-his-testicles-back-from-his-boyfriend/
10-08-2023: “If your boyfriend
is dating a chatbot, perhaps it was already time to start looking for a new
boyfriend anyway” https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2023/08/07/ai-girlfriends-called-a-threat-to-womens-rights-n569638
09-08-2023: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all you know on earth and all
you meed to know” John Keats (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44477/ode-on-a-grecian-urn) : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/08/the_war_on_truth.html
09-08-2023: Duh:” Unfortunately,
our thesis that the heart of man is intrinsically good, well it proved to
be...really, really false. Like, it's the most wrong anyone's ever been
about anything. It seems that unlike in movies, following your own heart
directly leads to pain and brokenness” https://babylonbee.com/news/report-record-number-of-people-following-their-hearts
09-08-2023: It is now patently clear that Albo and the Left are lying to us about
the Referendum. It is now a dead duck. Thanks
Peta Credlin & Jacinta Price. Now to rid ourselves of its ‘ducklings’
in all the states who are hastily and against our wishes implementing ‘treaty’
- and worse: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/voice-to-parliament/shadow-indigenous-australians-minister-jacinta-price-calls-on-prime-minister-albanese-to-come-clean-about-the-uluru-statement-from-the-heart/news-story/eb60c39ef5d111b7e84edb7bc4ec3808
09-08-2023: “The Hunga Tonga sub-surface ocean volcano eruption and its “unprecedented” production of extra stratospheric water vapor could be to blame.” Remember water vapour is responsible for 99%+ of the ‘greenhouse effect’. https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/08/uah-global-temperature-update-for-july-2023-0-64-deg-c/
On the other hand: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/08/07/hunga-tonga-mysteries/
08-08-2023: What if it’s right: https://blog.physics-astronomy.com/2023/08/ai-built-to-discover-extraterrestrial.html
08-08-2023: Professional crybaby Brittany Higgins may soon lose all her ill-gotten
gains. Good riddance: https://www.rebelnews.com/senator_follows_through_on_threat_to_sue_brittany_higgins
08-08-2023: People are beginning to wake up to ‘the internet of things’ controlled
by the CCP – as if we hadn’t already ‘decided’ to impose communism on
ourselves here in Oz already in multiple ways: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/how-to-paralyze-a-city-with-one-easy-ev-update/
08-08-2023: Whatever the real figures the truth is that tens of thousands of
people are being killed in yet another senseless war. I suspect (the real)
President Trump would have been able to prevent it. The Democrats always seem
to start wars rather than end them: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/highway-hell-ukraine-loses-2040-men-since-friday/
07-08-2023: Some good news. Go girls: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/08/03/yoga-women-aging-brains/9721691074086/
07-08-2023: Fifth Columns – what could go wrong? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/intelligence-breach-two-u-s-navy-sailors-chinese/
07-08-2023: From
“Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising
sweet,
With charm of earliest birds; pleasant
the sun
When first on this delightful land he
spreads
His orient beams on herb, tree, fruit,
and flower,
Glist’ring with dew; fragrant the fertile
earth
After soft showers; and sweet the coming
on
Of grateful ev’ning mild; then silent
night
With this her solemn bird and this fair
moon,
And these the
gems of heaven, her starry train:
But neither breath
of morn when she ascends
With charm of earliest birds, nor rising
sun
On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit,
flower,
Glist’ring with dew, nor fragrance after
showers,
Nor grateful ev’ning mild, nor silent
night
With this her solemn bird, nor walk by
moon
Or glittering starlight, without thee is
sweet.”
07-08-2023: The seemingly
innocuous word ‘recognition’ is the key Trojan Horse
in the foreshadowed Referendum - which must be rejected. One of the major
flaws in the notion of constitutionality is that such foundational documents
are a way of ossifying ‘truth’ for all time (why they are made so hard to
change). The ‘truths’ they establish are supposed to work like the ‘axioms’ in
Euclidean geometry (if you remember your junior high school maths). Everything
which comes after is supposed to ‘follow’ logically (with certainty ie needing
no further proof or justification) from them. Unfortunately if you make the
axioms out of falsehood (as this one is) then what ‘follows’ will be all sorts
of evil stuff.
This particular falsehood is that prior to the establishment of
But when British rule began (in 1770 when Cook claimed it or in 1788 when
Phillip established the first British colony?) there were already a very
diverse collection of people living here including a number of ‘white’
colonies, some descended from shipwreck survivors and others represented by
sealers and whalers – and who knows what else? There were clearly earlier European
inhabitants as evidenced for example by the strange ‘Bird People of Grute
Etland who carry a defective gene which arose amongst Jewish Portuguese people
in the C16th.
Linguistic and no doubt DNA studies have shown or would show other foreigners
arriving at various times, some maybe predating many ‘aboriginal groups
linguistic studies of whom show some arriving even in the Christian era
possibly as late as the C17th! And most not more than a
couple of thousand years ago in fact. Malays,
Polynesians, Arabs, Chinese, etc.
Even amongst the so-called ‘aboriginal people anthropologists (and linguists)
long ago established clear ‘waves’ of arrival. Whoever the first of
these might have been (perhaps the pygmy people of Cape York?) few if any
living Australians could establish a direct lineage let alone a lawful
inheritance from them (since it is unlikely they had a system of property
ownership - as this has been the subject of many important legal cases over
time).
However the ‘Bradshaw Paintings’ blow all that away too by depicting people
completely unlike any present-day aborigines living along the Kimberley Coast
as long ago as 45,000 years. Asiatic type people wearing ‘Batik’ type clothing
of a kind obviously unknown to our present indigenes.
Of course even those folk were unlikely to have been the ‘First Australians’
whose fossil records are yet to be found. Homo Erectus has been found c800,000 years ago in
The reality is all living Australians are all descended from migrants one way
or another. What changed in 1788 was that we all came under one system of law
as equal citizens. Yes this is true. From day One (26Jan 1788) no-one (eg)
could be murdered without exactly the same penalty required by law – and indeed
this was not infrequently applied.
Certainly too some of the local Sydney Cove) ‘aborigines’ at least very quickly
entered into European civilization, traveling back and forth the the
It was also commonplace for colonists to adopt orphaned aboriginal children (eg
from the measles epidemic around 1790 who then raised them as their own. Their
ancestry is lost to time in the absence of accurate BMD records in the early
days of the colony. Della (whose parents migrated to
The point is it does not matter a jot who or what our ancestors were. All that
counts is our own strength of character and what we make of our lives. For a
very long time (since the time of Phillip and
However, once you ‘recognise’ a ‘special group’ in law or in a constitution
what awful evil consequences might follow? And how hard will it be to eradicate
that distinction at a later time from our supposed egalitarian society?
Fortunately the referendum is dead in the water, but it should not be watered
down to a ‘simple recognition’ statement either. It should just be abandoned as
unworthy of us: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw/redbridge-poll-finds-majority-intend-to-vote-no-to-indigenous-voice-to-parliament/news-story/b7effa13dfe827da111e8816fe39fea7
06-08-2023: I think I will buy this book. May be the best $25 I have ever spent: https://www.amazon.com/Survival-Medicine-Handbook-Essential-Guide/dp/0988872501?crid=2C48VY7APFZRR&keywords=survival+books&qid=1691100687&s=books&sprefix=survival+books,stripbooks,113&sr=1-6&linkCode=sl1&tag=drhelenblog-20&linkId=f7ecf717c9afc395e3bfaf2600cc1197&language=en_US&ref_=as_li_ss_tl
06-08-2023: The trouble with heat pumps is they don’t work when it gets really
cold so more folks will just die in the coming Ice Age: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/green-madness-uk-style/
& https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/08/02/debate-over-heat-pumps-replacing-gas-in-the-u-k-gets-hot-n568833
06-08-2023: Progress at last: First nuclear power station in thirty years in the
06-08-2023: How ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’: https://richardsonpost.com/raymond-ibrahim/32501/the-long-promised-houris/
05-08-2023: And here we go: https://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/west-australia-government-to-scrap-controversial-botched-aboriginal-cultural-heritage-laws-within-days/news-story/6c5d547616bdc677a4e81b6df8b78329
05-08-2023: Biggest ever? Move over blue whale: https://www.popsci.com/science/perucetus-colossus-heaviest-animal-whale/
05-08-2023: These legal actions against Trump may actually result in the
overturning of the 2020 election: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/08/lawyer-newest-indictment-gives-trump-legal-power-never/
05-08-2023: Well said, “Reparations are never a topic based in
historical equality. Colonial
Australians can trace their histories back through thousands of years of
persecution, enslavement, victimhood, oppression, and terror. The
difference is, civilisations that look backwards never
build a future.” Our state governments shoving this rubbish down our throats
against our will can only fuel a huge anger against ‘black
We
did not vote for this and would not vote for this; ergo it should not happen –
or it should be undone if it does: https://www.rebelnews.com/dan_andrews_grants_sweeping_powers_to_aboriginal_land_councils
05-08-2023: Truly awesome (one should save words for using with their real
meaning). Snatched from the jaws of death. Lest we
forget (For the backstory read: https://nypost.com/2023/08/03/us-soldiers-seen-liberating-thousands-of-jews-from-nazi-train-found-video/
): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8YBXnvNrRo
04-08-2023: What a hero Farage is. I hope he is the next
04-08-2023: Do you still say you are against the death penalty? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/08/if-guilty-hang-him.html
& https://www.rebelnews.com/calls_for_death_penalty_after_shocking_child_sex_abuse_case
04-08-2023: When Richard Dawkins finally fell out with the Left: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/08/richard-dawkins-frank-sex-talk-infuriates-internet/
04-08-2023: Great Barrier Reef Fraud – why would anyone think that the reef
(which clearly did not exist c10,000 years ago during the last Ice Age when it
was solid land there) was in danger from ‘global warming’ when eg coral reefs
in the Red Sea exist at over 20C hotter ocean temperatures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5C0XGVDPUg
And
read (and weep about) what the Labor Govt intends to ‘do’ about it: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/labor-party-sells-out-australia-panders-to-the-un-to-avoid-a-naughty-reef-sticker/
03-08-2023: “I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was
service. I acted and behold, service was joy.” Rabindranath Tagore
03-08-2023: It is a disgraceful economic and environmental disaster – if it
would help ‘save’ the forests there might be some justification, but it will
actually destoy them after ‘mixed use’ has preserved them for the last 200
years. And you should realize that not only is forestry ‘renewable’ but that it
also is carbon sequestration in that the furniture and homes built from its
products last hundreds of years. : https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/labors-destruction-of-the-victorian-timber-industry-threatens-forests/
03-08-2023: Bruce Lehrmann may have a win in court yet (and Higgins get her
come-uppence): https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/bruce-lehrmanns-revenge-former-liberal-staffer-plots-million-dollar-compo-claim/news-story/6046aa9585cd46e2d4ac9a9b3d42d6c5 & https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/sofronoff-report-alleges-shane-drumgold-lied-during-lehrmann-rape-trial/news-story/8c0e1d85c61b81f9e1da454a1f86b475
03-08-2023: The ABC needs to go. They are beyond belief bad: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/climate-extremists-go-to-woodside-ceos-home-to-vandalise-intimidate-and-the-abc-is-there-to-help/
02-08-2023: The most powerful essay I have read this year. We have destroyed our
young and now we can no longer count on them to save us: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/cutting-off-your-thumbs-to-spite-your-country/
02-08-2023: The great retreat from the Green Blob. Something is breaking here:
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/07/british-pm-is-pro-car-and-on-the-motorists-side.html
& https://joannenova.com.au/2023/08/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-net-zero/
02-08-2023: The ‘Voice’ will not save Chalumbin forest, the world’s oldest tropical rainforest, that has been ranked as ‘the
second most irreplaceable natural land area on the planet’. Albanese & his leftie
mates are about to destroy it in an awful croney capitalist deal no doubt
replete with corrupt bribery and profiteering for themselves: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/aboriginal-voices-on-the-voice/
02-08-2023: Ah for a good healthy steak: https://nypost.com/2023/07/31/vegan-influencer-starved-to-death-friends/
01-08-2023: The ‘culture wars’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/kill-boer-farmer-radical-south-african-political-leader/
& https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/dancing-shirtless-man-pumping-gas-new-york-stabbed/
01-08-2023: Schadenfreud: “We're conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments.
But great moments often catch us unaware-beautifully wrapped in what others may
consider a small one.” https://twitter.com/Gr8fulSusan/status/1685815134802063361
01-08-2023: In the
01-08-2023: If we have to pay for them, why can’t we demand they provide a DNA
result to prove they are? In the same way, why can’t we demand people work
for a living? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-the-voice-will-merely-serve-to-worsen-giant-fakery/news-story/4c47e4dabf5664584cf62476f82ceb8b
31-07-2023: I liked
this meme: “It is not a Voice. It is an Invoice to be paid endlessly by us and
our children”.
31-07-2023: Why not
become a dog? https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/man-spends-22000-to-become-a-border-collie-dog/news-story/ced5e61487e73f28c2cbcc257e4ff746?utm_campaign=EditorialSB&utm_source=News.com.au&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_content=SocialBakers
31-07-2023: She’s a
top girl this one. Oh the good old (brown) gravy train: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-this-aboriginal-identity-craze-is-too-much/news-story/420ce909cd89314f0fadab8be22b0c49
31-07-2023: A long
time at sea: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/sandy-point-skeleton-mystery-solved-after-95-years/news-story/73c351ad972d87d61dd0f93ff69d94d9
30-07-2023:
Rejuvenation at last! Just Wow! Bring it on I say.
Where can I buy this stuff? https://www.aging-us.com/article/204896/text?utm_source=Klaviyo&utm_medium=campaign&utm_campaign=Sinclair%27s%20New%20Study%21%20Age%20Reversal%20with%20Chemical%20Cocktails&_kx=B_yKIF84vdC2pCqcV7aJGBH2521TDLZN-HiRd6gtUa5LzgwS6_YvcgomZEyi7h9R.RmdNXZ
30-07-2023: Global warming conspiracy theorists insist the world is boiling – as if
1936 never happened, “The percentage of the US to reach 100F this year is
currently at a record low 18%, down from 79% in 1936”: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/more-lies-global-warming-conspiracists-insist-world-is/
30-07-2023: Sad
really – what an awful world they will be creating. Still like choosing
homosexuality, such a derangement will disappear in a single generation and the
world will resume without them: https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/28/data-50-of-millennials-gen-zers-want-to-focus-on-themselves-instead-of-having-kids/
30-07-2023: NZ is a
basket case because of the simply awful Ardern Government. Our little rat
mates Albo, Bowen, Chalmers et al are rushing us down the very same slippery
slope. Read this and weep: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/in-it-for-who/
29-07-2023: Wifi
Booster And Security
29-07-2023:
Absolutely: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/49924 I know a few people with Phds who
wouldn’t have passed the matriculation exam back when I was 15!
29-07-2023: The worst
experiment in medical history: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/silent-heart-damage-found-in-1-in-35-people-who-were-vaccinated/
29-07-2023: Might be
a problem though if it doesn’t work just when you need it most: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-first-smart-gun-is-finally-coming-to-market-will-anyone-buy-it-67314e0?mod=djemalertNEWS
28-07-2023: A fair
few houses in this one: https://allthatsinteresting.com/tallest-tree-in-asia?fbclid=IwAR0Z2u_PTfQbM2ijwSwxJO17SDcsnr2Oyeo_StBWbR-FhIR3Y5snZKp1PtQ
28-07-2023: Three
cheers for Alex Antic, “Those of us who do believe in Liberal
principles will continue to strive for a better future for our nation, while
Labor and the Greens enrich themselves and disempower hard-working Australians with
their senseless Net Zero and identity-politics agendas.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/far-right-or-traditional-liberal/
28-07-2023: Easy come, easy go': all agree is
tautologously identified with welfare recipients, heir/esses and lotto winners;
ie no-one values what they have not earned. Governments display this propensity
in absolute excess: they should be denied all funding!
28-07-2023: Indeed, “Warren Mundine put it best recently when he
explained that the only credible solutions to indigenous disadvantage are
education, employment, hard work and home ownership…this is why, after
centuries of struggle and injustices, we have settled on a democratically elected
parliament where every citizen gets one vote regardless of race, religion or
class as the most efficient and just form of government” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/self-harming-the-nation/
27-07-2023: ‘The
Password Is Courage’ is a remarkable film and book by a truly remarkable WW2
hero, Sgt Charles Coward. Beg, borrow or steal it (from
27-07-2023: Coming
soon to Victoria too with a treaty no-one got a chance to vote on (but I’d
guess they will want repealed in the future): https://www.news.com.au/national/we-havent-messaged-this-well-startling-admission-as-wa-farmers-rage-at-aboriginal-cultural-heritage-act/news-story/c35abddcbd55bf372dadb8698a8f8752
27-07-2023: Good luck
with no more rate rises in Oz Albo. Methinks yesterday’s inflation figures were
very rubbery too: https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/fed-poised-hike-rates-markets-anticipate-inflation-endgame-2023-07-26/
27-07-2023: If true
it would be the biggest news ever. It seems so improbable though that someone
with the technology to travel between the stars would crash on earth in an
unreliable craft: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/ufo-whistleblower-us-recovered-non-human-biological-pilots/
26-07-2023: How does a civilized society deal with severely mentally ill people who refuse assistance? Filling the streets and gaols up with them wasn’t such a great idea either. https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/bring-back-the-asylums?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1523886&post_id=135399437&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
26-07-2023: Why would
anyone want/allow this for minors? “Every single child, or
adolescent, who was truly blocked at Tanner stage 2 [by age 11]
has never experienced orgasm. I mean, it’s really about zero.” https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/04/25/tragedy-when-a-colon-just-wont-work-as-a-vagina-n546290
26-07-2023: About
those (much worse) Medieval heat waves: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/european-heatwaves-soldiers-died-in-the-heat-in-1160-rivers-ran-dry-in-1303-animals-fell-dead-in-1393/
25-07-2023: Take that
T Rex: https://gizmodo.com/preserved-fossil-mammal-preying-beaked-dinosaur-1850664541
25-07-2023: The
Bidens and the ‘
25-07-2023: The
Hungarians are a remarkable people: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/review-the-courage-to-care/ You may not remember
the Hungarian Uprising in 1956 as I do but if not you should read Mitcheners
‘The Bridge at Andau’. Now they are taking the lead in the poush-back against
the globalists in
25-07-2023: If
conservatives drop this ‘Net Zero’ b------t they might well rocket back: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/uk-surprise-byelection-shows-why-conservatives-must-stand-against-netzero/
24-07-2023: Extraordinary:
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-cracked-piece-of-metal-healed-itself-in-an-experiment-that-stunned-scientists?fbclid=IwAR01aJnwJt7IAOxsiiJqUoMciE5FkmvSdnGyMOZ6IgXxyCQjWc888cOGRWU
24-07-2023: Some good
news: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chief-diversity-officer-cdo-business-corporations-e110a82f
24-07-2023: A very
succinct and accurate rebuttal of the whole global warming myth: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/eight-important-facts-not-opinions-that-totally-debunk/
24-07-2023: Looking
more and more as if we have only scratched the surface: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/21/china/china-second-superdeep-borehole-intl-hnk/index.html
23-07-2023: Winter Joy: (Della): Sharing some winter joy in my garden. When I first created my rose garden 30 years ago, I was sad to see it so bare and drab during the colder months. After retirement, I worked on finding things that would add winter interest, and this afternoon’s warm, setting sun helped to reward me for my efforts. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/07/22/winter-joy/
23-07-2023: A new
type of ‘one stroke’ engine: https://newatlas.com/automotive/innengine-one-stroke-engine-design/
23-07-2023: Is it
quite mad for society not to have lunatic asylums? https://www.wsj.com/articles/its-time-to-bring-back-the-asylum-ec01fb2?st=ipzldf9sj6i6oe2&reflink=article_email_share
23-07-2023: More dirt
on the Higgins-Lehrmann ‘affair’: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/feminist-capture-of-justice-system
23-07-2023: I really
hope that Malcolm Roberts is right and that the tide has turned against the
Green Blob. At least it is most entertainingly written: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/the-great-green-backlash-is-labor-next/
22-07-2023: The
continual erosion of civil society: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/07/15/civil-society/
22-07-2023: And
they’re right! Why bring them in the first place? https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/benbartee/2023/07/18/nearly-three-quarters-of-french-public-wants-to-strip-migrant-rioters-of-citizenship-n1711646
22-07-2023: The cure
for poverty and climate change is nuclear: https://quillette.com/2023/07/07/humanity-should-split-more-atoms/
22-07-2023: The new
Green
21-07-2023: Just what
you want: some ‘culture warrior’ rendering your land valueless: https://www.rebelnews.com/wa_property_owners_fear_worthless_land_as_indigenous_heritage_laws_take_effect
21-07-2023: Bad news
for bank robbers at least (and the public) – cashless banks: https://www.rebelnews.com/bank_s_cashless_branches_leave_customers_empty_handed
21-07-2023: Motorists
are fighting back (and wining) against 15 minute cities: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/the-cars-are-winning-against-the-15-minute-cities-in-the-uk/
21-07-2023: Anything
to create panic: “What we experienced over the past days was most intense
climate lie since temperature recording began…The problem with that report
is that none of it is true.” In
20-07-2023: Neil
Oliver on the ‘fear mongering hoax and scam’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vkpcBMmvP0
20-07-2023: Do you
have a right to a bank account in
20-07-2023: If so,
millennials are just crazy. What kind of society do they want? https://jonathanturley.org/2023/07/16/pronoun-lockdown-almost-half-of-millennials-want-jail-time-for-misgendering/
20-07-2023: Ayn Rand,
“You can avoid reality, but
you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality…There is no difference between socialism and communism,
except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to
enslave men by force, socialism by vote. It is merely the difference between
murder and suicide.” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/ayn_rand_has_some_prescient_thoughts_about_democrats_avoidance_of_reality.html
19-07-2023: A Democratic
Society. That is what we have prided ourselves on for nearly two centuries
in
19-07-2023: Maybe we
should all go back to smoking menthol cigarettes (Alpine). Remember when
doctors used to give them away free? Those were the days. Of course if you
don’t remember, here’s why: https://scitechdaily.com/alzheimers-breakthrough-inhaling-menthol-improves-cognitive-ability/
19-07-2023: Maybe
retirement isn’t such a great idea? Just ask Jayne who
started her current job of 26 years at age 75: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/07/12/100-year-old-woman-still-works-4-days-a-week-her-best-career-advice.html
19-07-2023: Won’t
this be something – if it works? https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-rocket-engine-begins-construction
18-07-2023: I must
admit to being shocked this morning to realise that I actually know someone who
says s/he will vote, ‘Yes’. All my life (and I include also my parents’ and
grandparents’ lives…) I have held to the belief that it is more than wicked
(just downright evil) to treat someone differently on account of their race or
birth nationality, as the Nazis so infamously did. Six million Jews and two
million Gypsies can’t be wrong! Such racism is just about the worst vile trait
that one can have, yet evidently many of my fellow countrymen still have it,
though we voted in a referendum back in 1967 to never ever again allow ‘race’
into our constsitution. One country for
all equally under the Southern Cross. Yet here we go again only fifty years
later with a new apartheid proposal, and one which will end our democracy as
well. I stand with what I have always believed, that we should always be
treated equally under the law as we are not responsible for how or where we were born. I don’t
think the same of religion which I consider a choice, though as I view all
religions as equal manifestations of insanity (or at least delusion) perhaps it
is no more a choice than other forms of insanity are. However, I long ago
learned from that great book ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ (and elsewhere) that
one can choose one’s mental state too and make oneself and indeed the whole
world, better by doing so. You can get a free copy here: http://new-free-pdf.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/man-search-for-meaning-by-viktor-frankl.html
18-07-2023: When you
are old and lonely at least you will have GR-1: https://www.euronews.com/next/2023/07/12/worlds-first-mass-produced-humanoid-robot-to-tackle-labour-shortages-amid-ageing-populatio
18-07-2023: What does
‘Universe 25’ mean for the human race? No doubt many of us can ‘see’ the
aberrant behaviours developing amongst us which presaged collapse in the mouse
‘universe’: https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/universe-25-1968-1973-69941
18-07-2023: On ‘the
hottest day ever’ the satellite record showed it as -.1C less than the fifty
year average, so global cooling? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/16/hottest-days-manipulation/
17-07-2023: Why not
end our democracy forever? Because that is just what ‘The Voice’ is: the
replacement of centuries’ long progress in making ‘The People’s House’ supreme
with (what went before) an unelected hereditary (racially based) ‘nobility’ (of
whom and chosen by whom; we are not told)
– no better than being dictated to by the ‘Norman’ House of Lords and
the monarch, probably worse. We will have no ability to have another referendum
to remove it when we realize what a dictatorial disaster it is because it will
have the Veto over our will. It will only be able to be removed by a violent
revolution – something we have avoided in British society for a long while.
17-07-2023: You would
hope the Fadden by-election result is the beginning of the end of the
disastrous Albo Government: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-anthony-albaneses-honeymoon-as-pm-is-finally-over/news-story/9d020ec6bc332a44f7d7b9db8a53f913
17-07-2023: Billions of people are alive (healthy and
prosperous) today because the world is warmer: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/15/untold-story-of-climates-holocene-gift-to-humanity/
17-07-2023: Just a
reminder; Winter is coming: https://www.coricks.com/2023/07/04/it-is-winter/
16-07-2023: It ain’t half hot mum. Della was
reminding me of just how hot Leo experienced the summer of 1900 in ‘The Go
Between’ when the thermometer was often over 100F (37C) in Norfolk. Air
temperature that is, not the spurious ‘surface temperature’ the alarmists are
spouting at the moment (48C in Sardinia & etc) – as if you couldn’t always
fry an egg on the tarmac or a car bonnet on a hot Aussie summer’s day! Remember
people doing that when you were a kid? I do. And if ‘today’ is the hottest day
ever (in Europe) how come for a couple of thousand years at least (from Roman
Britain until the end of the Middle Ages with the ‘Little Ice Age’ c 1450AD)
you could and did grow wine grapes right up to the Scottish border - when
grapes will not grow outdoors anywhere in Britain today?. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/07/14/newly-found-weather-records-show-1930s-as-being-far-worse-than-the-present-for-extreme-weather/?fbclid=IwAR3yYeZ2NjxWszbm8ZTeYbh_2O6LV9RypggHhpUFCh2CD1Dkb3E17i1HUYw
16-07-2023: ‘Time’s Winged Chariot’. This morning I have
been thinking about mortality a bit and mused, ‘How many folks have known
people who were born 200 years apart?’ (Just a bit more
than the age of our country). A really lot is the answer. You figure it.
My own great grandfather lived the entire C19th, just as an example. The last
person to have known Queen
16-07-2023: I agree
with James Allan, it deserves to fail: “I still think it will fail
now because it proposes to undermine the core notion of equal citizenship on
which liberal democracy is founded. I also think it will fail because it makes
very likely the possibility of judicial activists rewriting the constitution at
the point of application and because it will further clog up our already
sclerotic law-making processes (only two other democracies have anything like
our powerful upper house Senate), and because, at core, I have huge confidence
in the good sense of the average Australian.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/setting-the-record-straight/
16-07-2023: Please save us John Connor!: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-07-15/whats-your-pdoom-ai-researchers-worry-catastrophe/102591340?fbclid=IwAR3j-1zVs-CqUyorfrp35HwMoLCq4vodExbH93txzTJywz-sZVkxoQkf5Bg
15-07-2023: In
15-07-2023: Thank Monash: Electricity from brown coal is still only 3 cents a kilowatt hour: “Imagine a world where Australian electricity prices were cheap again and industries moved here from all over the world. With the extra funds Australian families could afford laptops, music lessons, books and adventure camps for every child, or trips to the Whitsundays, Ningaloo, whatever turned them on. Parents might not have to work two jobs. What a life of riches we gave up so easily, with so little thought, because we were badgered and bullied into a futile quest to change the weather?” https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/inflation-be-damned-brown-coal-is-still-making-electricity-for-3c-a-kilowatt-hour/
15-07-2023: Hope for
a Rise of Conservatism – the Alternative For
15-07-2023: Just in
case you have forgotten what a disaster Atsic was and don’t realise why you
should vote, “No’: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/07/50-reasons-why-normies-should-vote-no/
Here’s another five: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-five-reasons-you-should-vote-no-to-voice/news-story/dd4c1375cc4de38f08e430483094144c
14-07-2023: Things I
did not know: The name
‘bungalow’ means "house in the
14-07-2023: There are
vast numbers of Nobel Prize winning scientists who repudidate the climate
crisis. You don’t get this from the mainstream press though: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/another-skeptical-nobel-laureate-of-physics-climate-science-has-metastasized/
14-07-2023: When the
Left decides to reject the climate mantra: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/11/uaw-to-biden-where-are-the-good-paying-green-jobs/
& https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/12/i-hate-tree-huggers-britains-opposition-leader-on-net-zero-proposals/
14-07-2023: Good
Idea: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/07/keeping-it-simple-for-the-idiots.html
13-07-2023: Further
twists in the Russian ‘mutiny’: https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-held-3-hour-meeting-wagner-chief-days-after-revolt
13-07-2023: This (disastrous wildfires which kill
everything) is the main reason I oppose the very existence of ‘National Parks’
and the failed ideology of ‘conservation’ which motivates them. We had better
protection for a diversity of native plants and animals under nearly 200 years
of mixed use of our state forests including sustainable logging , seasonal
grazing, some mining…including a wide range of personal freedoms (4WDriving,
camping, fishing, fossilizing, hunting etc): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2023/07/canadas-grim-lesson-in-bushfire-management/
13-07-2023: Sad, but
not so instantaneous then: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/titan-sub-victims-likely-realised-their-fate-between-48-and-71-seconds-before-deaths-horror-movie/news-story/a5c5b748ebdb8b05331f9ba22be591c9
13-07-2023: Kill the
bush! All right for some: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/andrew-bolt/greens-senator-to-cut-down-trees-making-way-for-her-own-luxury-townhouses/video/0db5061bc893de9e4594a5b5dff363e5
12-07-2023: No
evidence required; just debank:
“The guideline recognises that banks don’t need legal evidence of domestic
violence, such as an Apprehended Violence Order, to be able to offer assistance
to customers… Hmm, can you imagine the banks cutting off the accounts of
women who refuse to work or contribute to household bills? That’s clearly not
going to happen.” https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/weaponising-banks-against-men
12-07-2023: It is
not just
12-07-2023: It’s
going to be ‘fun and games’: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/sustainability/aboriginal-elder-says-tree-planting-event-was-shut-down-because-it-honoured-queen-elizabeth/news-story/e33739e1116d4a55cc7c30bc4afe0ff1
12-07-2023: These Big
Tech monsters are sinister. Soon there will not even be a memory of freedom in
our country: https://www.rebelnews.com/meta_to_fact_check_indigenous_voice_referendum_with_new_funding_amid_free_speech_concerns
11-07-2023: Good God:
https://www.dailywire.com/news/anglican-leader-says-opening-of-lords-prayer-is-problematic-for-some
PS: I would have thought the pronoun 'which' is the
biggest worry.
11-07-2023: That
breastfeeding bloke is the last straw: https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/07/05/that-breastfeeding-bloke-is-the-last-straw/
Unless it is Target
selling tampons to ‘menstruaters’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/tgp-reacts-gender-inclusive-tampons-woke-brand-calls/
11-07-2023: Are you
the same person you used to be? https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/are-you-the-same-person-you-used-to-be-life-is-hard-the-origins-of-you?utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_brand=tny&mbid=social_facebook&fbclid=IwAR1r3s3gfFpeai8neuXGoda7Zf5JjJbCpxufWM1_xnCLlBxUJwhKl6IlsEU
11-07-2023: Good
points: How I learned to stop worrying and love CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/08/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-carbon-dioxide/
10-07-2023: The
state of
10-07-2023: Ronald
Reagan, "I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been
born.” “A 3% increase. Wonder what those babies think of
that? They are too young to answer the question today, but let's ask
them in 15 years. My guess is that most will say thanks for getting
a chance to live rather than to have someone decide to put them among the 60
million who never got the chance.” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/07/reagan_was_right_about_abortion.html
10-07-2023: Sad
really. When you want your imaginary friends to think you have a really
exciting life instead of spending it staring at four walls somewhere inside a
vast megalopolis: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/dad-dies-front-children-wife-films-attempt-viral/
10-07-2023: Our
actual life: Each afternoon we take the dogs for a walk in one of the forests
nearby. Here are a couple of shots from yesterday. A very
fine rainbow and six charming fallow deer. You can maybe see why I have
ordered a phone with a better camera (https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/06/25/what-a-star/) . Fortunately my memory has many more megapixels than my
phone. Of course there were also the usual half a
dozen black wallabies and a dozen or so kangaroos - & etc.
9-07-2023: Holidays
on Mars maybe sooner than you thought: https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a44475938/nuclear-fusion-rocket-engine-hotter-than-sun/?utm_campaign=socialflowFBPOP&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social-media&fbclid=IwAR1vWQg2eYKJcCbwtRQYf_Qcwowvdux_TaVa60pb_i_gMi5ML44qM3QVUj8
9-07-2023: A
Castration Robot – what a great idea: https://www.city-journal.org/article/oregon-health-science-universitys-castration-machine
And, How easy it is to have yourself castrated (22 minutes) : https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/a_22minute_intake_will_get_you_a_genderaffirming_testicle_removal.html
9-07-2023: Take a
look at the energy use of the most populous countries, then tell me why we
are ruining our economy with this ‘renewables’ religion: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/07/fossil-and-non-fossil-fuels/
9-07-2023:
Moonbattery as a disability: https://moonbattery.com/moonbattery-as-a-disability/
8-07-2023: Probably
a fair point. Chris Hedges: “They Lied
About
8-07-2023: A
great essay: Conservatives “need to reassert what was once obvious—that
the biological, married family is the best environment for raising children
and that to be heterosexual is not merely an inferior option in life for those
who just can’t for some reason join up with the alphabet brigade. They have to
reassert the legitimacy of bourgeois norms and insist that children deserve to
have their innocence regarding sex preserved for as long as possible”: https://www.city-journal.org/article/a-battle-for-cultural-survival
8-07-2023: This is
good news. I’m sure I’m not the only person just wanting to do business without
a dose of ‘save the world’ religion thrown in: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/global-climate-police-thwarted-us-republican-states-win-against-net-zero-insurance-cartel/
8-07-2023: You don’t
say!
7-07-2023: Things we
really need a referendum on and a guarantee in the constitution for: I can
think of a heap myself. For example, free speech, political freedom, the right
to lawful assembly and association and free movement, protection from arbitrary
arrest, the right to a fair trial, the right to own private property and
guarantees about what that means, the right to be treated equally before the
law, one person one vote, our right to decide before our government enters into
international agreements & especially UN conventions, abolishing the
utterly undemocratic and anachronistic Senate, fixed date annual elections (as
in ancient Rome),,.I’m sure you can think of a few more important things than
setting up an unelected racist assembly above our elected leaders: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/big-win-against-big-tech-censors-in-usa-shows-australians-need-a-referendum-for-free-speech/
7-07-2023: The UAH’s global temperature for July. I'm
sure that you know that this is the most reliable international measure of world
temperature (though the satellites don’t cover the polar
regions). The most telling thing in this 50 year history is that global
temperature seems to be constrained to a narrow limit of +/- .5C. I think this
is an extraordinary thermostatic effect. You would think much more ‘climate’
effort would be spent on understanding why this is the case than preaching
alarmist memes about ‘the hottest day in world history’, imminent doom and
other such nonsense: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/07/uah-global-temperature-update-for-june-2023-0-38-deg-c/
7-07-2023:
Remembering the incomparable Michael Crichton twenty years on: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/26/anniversary-issue-the-crichton-caltech-michelin-lecture/
7-07-2023: Go Ladies:
https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/meet-the-australian-women-making-a-stand-for-free-speech/
6-07-2023:
"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to
pause and reflect.“ Mark Twain
6-07-2023: $60K a
year to go to Uni for life. Why not spend even more money on ‘aborigines’? Reparations anyone? https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/my-husbands-been-at-uni-for-20-years-is-that-a-red-flag/news-story/53238bdf9c78b47a88dff2da6943cf54
6-07-2023: At least
he died happy: https://nypost.com/2023/07/05/uk-nurse-failed-to-get-help-when-her-patient-died-during-sex/
6-07-2023:
‘Scientists’ claim that it was the ‘hottest year ever’ last year, a year when
no-one was able to raise a single tomato in Southern Victoria. For
comparison I remember during the 1980s (when it was supposedly much colder) we
had tomatoes every single year and some years
watermelons/rockmelons too. If people believe this stuff it is simply the
Goebbels Effect. Meanwhile there has not been a year in living memory anything
like 1939 no matter how much they try to fake it.
5-07-2023: I have
always been pro-vaccine but, “Not one childhood vaccine was pre-tested in a
placebo controlled trial”. Good Lord: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/r-f-kennedy-jnr-not-one-childhood-vaccine-was-pretested-in-a-long-term-placebo-controlled-trial/
Tragic: I wonder what
the cost/benefit of the covid vaccine is/was. Will we ever know? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/tragic-news-actress-succumbs-assisted-suicide-following-covid/
5-07-2023:
5-07-2023: 3 times as
much food (grain) as there was in 1961 – 50% more than there was in 2000. It
surely is the ‘end times’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/its-biblical-climate-fire-and-brimstone-except-the-un-wants-to-be-god/
5-07-2023: Debanking:
the next big step in social control. You can see why they want to get rid of
cheques and paper money now perhaps: https://richardsonpost.com/stephen-wells/32222/nigel-farage-gets-debanked-and-youre-all-next/
More here: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/07/theyre-only-making-plans-for-nigel/
4-07-2023: Volkswagen “are experiencing strong customer reluctance in the electric vehicle sector”: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/02/volkswagen-strong-customer-reluctance-in-the-electric-vehicle-sector/
And: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/07/ev-fantasia-hits-multiple-speed-bumps/
4-07-2023: The Pareto
Principle: https://resumelab.com/career-advice/pareto-principle?utm_source=google&utm_medium=sem&utm_campaign=6540517835&utm_term=%2Bpareto%20%2Bprinciple&network=g&device=c&adposition=&adgroupid=104311758447&placement=&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIpIDYnOfv_wIV7sbjBx26LAZJEAAYASAAEgImAPD_BwE
4-07-2023: “All the solar and wind in the world
combined doesn’t provide even a third of the energy we get from wood and dung.”
Good old carbon still represents 93% of world energy use: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/03/the-myth-of-replacing-fossil-fuels/
.
4-07-2023: What a
‘delightful’ character Yunupingu
evidently really was: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/07/galarrwuy-yunupingu-lord-of-the-manor/
3-07-2023: Fancy a cashew: https://www.coricks.com/2023/04/07/560/
3-07-2023: There shall be only one truth (and like ‘work’ at
3-07-2023: Apparently we never had it tough with interest rates at 21% back in 1990. It is today’s spoiled darlings with interest rates of 6% who have it tough. You can prove anything with figures if you try/lie hard enough. Of course they have more debt because of the ‘cheap money’ which has caused house prices to explode: https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/interest-rates/double-whammy-facing-aussie-homeowners-as-interest-rates-soar-while-wages-stagnate/news-story/013d5cacec26162df72dd688fff03cea
3-07-2023: When the world was much warmer (just a few
thousands of years ago) there was so much more life on earth – the
2-07-2023: What you get when you allow a vast Fifth Column to invade your country. We need an immigration re-set now: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/france-grip-anarchy-cities-transformed-war-zones-amidst/
Good question: https://richardsonpost.com/tyler-durden/32179/france-deploys-armored-military-vehicles-to-combat-nationwide-riots/
2-07-2023: Certainly big news if it proves to be true. Hit by a comet perhaps? Problem for the gay community? https://allisrael.com/did-sodom-and-gomorrah-really-exist-biblical-archaeologist-reveals-new-evidence-on-the-rosenberg-report
2-07-2023: Yeah! Being alive is bad for your health. None of us will survive this: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fhealth%2Farchive%2F2023%2F06%2Fartificial-sweetener-aspartame-diet-coke-cancer-link-who%2F674586%2F
2-07-2023: I do enjoy a morning dose of Stuart Schneiderman: https://stuartschneiderman.substack.com/p/saturday-miscellany-ad4?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1523886&post_id=132334649&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
1-07-2023: Sure looks cold: Spring near the Martian North Pole: https://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/ESP/ORB_078300_078399/ESP_078343_2500/ESP_078343_2500_MRGB.abrowse.jpg
1-07-2023: Hachiko: If this does not bring a tear to your eye, you are not human: https://www.coricks.com/2023/06/30/hachiko-the-most-loyal-dog-in-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR2iZ7zl2y1dkmDPZhYKm-uYeIYPoAf8kOf4jXnheBHieHs-S40AmLF3x00
1-07-2023: Pell deserves sainthood: “The case against Pell
was nothing more than an appalling police sting operation protracted by grossly
erroneous judicial reasoning by
1-07-2023: In the US the Supreme Court has found that ‘affirmative action’ based on’race’ is wrong – yet here in Australia we are rushing to enshrine this obscenity in our own constitution…”All men are created equal…” https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/06/the-time-has-come-today-3.php
30-06-2023: A new idea for an expandable camper: https://newatlas.com/outdoors/flip90-vw-truck-camper-rotates-roomy-backcountry-cabin/
30-06-2023: Exactly: https://babylonbee.com/news/pedophile-jailed-for-flashing-kids-at-playground-kicking-himself-for-not-doing-it-at-pride-parade-instead
30-06-2023: We must
fight back against the Left. The
30-06-2023: Why should this small but vocal group have more than one person and one vote? This vocal minority will not be happy until they have ‘cradle to grave’ support from other hard-working Australians. https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/hear-my-voice/
29-06-2023: The Ultralight Sauna: Fancy a sauna in the back country? I thought I had pretty much sorted out Bathtime on the Trail with that post as well as The APC and the Sponge Bath and Keeping Clean on the Trail & etc, but the ingenious Tim Tinker has now come along with a modification of my Hiking Desalinater which enables a half-hour sauna even in the snow! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/06/28/the-ultralight-sauna/
29-06-2023: A splendid essay, “The empire was not in essence racist, exploitative or senselessly violent. It learnt to correct its sins of commission or omission.” : https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/06/measuring-the-elephant-the-morality-of-the-british-empire/
29-06-2023: “Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right.” Henry Ford: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/think_you_can.html
29-06-2023: It doesn’t get any stranger than this: Big Tech Cage Fighting: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/musk-zuckerberg-cage-fight-elon-will-train-legendary/
28-06-2023: Bombshell: Over 500 excess deaths a week involving heart diseases have been documented since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the British Heart Foundation: https://www.bhf.org.uk/-/media/files/what-we-do/influencing-change/strengthening-health-and-care-systems/excess-deaths-involving-cvd/excess-deaths-involving-cvd-in-england_an-anlysis-and-explainer.pdf
28-06-2023: A heart-warming story: Vanilla the chimp, caged for entire life, sees sky for first time: https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/vanilla-the-chimp-caged-entire-life-sees-sky-for-first-time-in-heartwarming-video/
28-06-2023: It is sad that these five billionaires are dead at the bottom of the sea, but it is great that they used their wealth to ‘push the envelope’ for the rest of us. Someday because of such folks your grandkids will holiday on the moons of Saturn or cruise to Alpha Centauri. “Most cutting edge technology starts out as a rich man’s toy. Automobiles, passenger airplanes, VCRs, etc. all started out that way. Letting rich people buy the tech drives the technology and pushes prices down over time so that ordinary people can afford it. I don’t think ordinary people will ever be interested in doing miles-deep dives, but improved subsea technology is a very big deal. We often hear about how unexplored the deep ocean depths are, and there’s a reason for that – we aren’t very good at it yet. We get better at it by doing it. We can do it more if people are willing and able to pay for it.” Glenn Reynolds. Should the sub have been tested on poorer people first?: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/in-praise-of-megarich-adventurers/
Mind you, they didn’t suffer: https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2023/06/26/what-happened-to-the-bodies-of-those-killed-in-the-titanic-submersible-implosion-n2625013
28-06-2023: What is going on with these UFOs? It seems vanishingly unlikely they are crashed spaceships from a distant and superior civilisation, so what exactly is the fuss about? Maybe someone (the US/China?) has superior technology we don’t know about: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/ufos-or-not-something-is-up/
27-06-2023: Wonnangatta Pack (Raft) Track: Many people may not know that the famous C19th Wonnangatta Station was ‘serviced’ by a pack track up the true right bank of that river (ie the right bank facing downstream) along which all its supplies came (including even a large piano).
No doubt other sections still exist below the Moroka Junction, but this post concerns its remnant from the Moroka Junction to the Hernes and Wombat Spurs. Clearly it also went on after that but as with the lower section there is now a road or track which can more easily be followed, eg by those wishing to pack raft the river or explore it for other purposes – deer hunting (excellent), fishing (which is good), bush walking & etc. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/06/26/wonnangatta-pack-raft-track/
27-06-2023: Too many unmeritorious rape case are destroying social life: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/scope-creep-and-the-sexual-assault
27-06-2023: Remember (just yesterday) when the famous (song) phrase, “I am woman” was something to be proud of? What is the matter with the world? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/the-sex-that-dare-not-speak-its-name/
27-06-2023: The ‘Twitter Files’ reveal just how sinister the Big Tech players have become: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/to-condition-people-to-censor-themselves/
26-06-2023: Today is the 50th anniversary of the Limits to Growth, which used state of the art computer models that were not validated to predict that humanity faced a devastating collapse from the lack of food, oil, other commodities, etc.
26-06-2023: What a Star: Available now on Kickstarter the new Unihertz Jelly (Star) phone for US$169ea (or US$310 for two).
I have been using the Jelly 2 for a couple of years now and found it just great. I will be ordering this new model because of the (much) improved camera. From 16 Megapixels to 48! Wow! Huge!
I have taken most of the photos on my blog The Ultralight Hiker the last two years with it. I don’t think you could complain about their quality, but the new camera looks set to blow them away. I will be able to zoom in and crop much smaller detail for example. Roughly (the equivalent of) ten times zoom I guess. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/06/25/what-a-star/
26-06-2023: Wind energy just crashed: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/siemans-energy-stocks-fall-36-turbines-are-degrading-faster-than-expected/
26-06-2023: Contrariwise, I think the kids got it right, “You identify with the sexual organ you were born with. That’s basically what you’re saying, which is really despicable.” https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/teacher_calls_student_despicable_for_questioning_classmates_claim_shes_a_cat.html
26-06-2023: “Ron Klain, until recently Joe Biden’s chief of staff, is quotable here. In reply to a Vox post on July 14, 2014 showing ‘68 per cent of Americans think elections are rigged,’ Klain tweeted: ‘That’s because they are.’” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/yes-us-elections-can-be-hacked/
25-06-2023: Ephemera: When I am filling the kettle to make the morning coffee I usually happen to glance out the kitchen window just to see what wonders the day has in store for me. There are always some, a number of which you have been a party to over the years, such as this secretive rabbit which I made a feature of in an item about Responsible Sambar Deer Hunting. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/06/25/ephemera/
25-06-2023: Nice people: Moslem-American scholar defends marriage to 9-year-old girls: https://worldisraelnews.com/watch-muslim-american-scholar-defends-marriage-to-9-year-old-girls/
25-06-2023: Stranger and stranger: Why should lesbians sleep with men? As long as they do, you might say: https://unherd.com/2023/05/why-should-lesbians-sleep-with-men/
25-06-2023: What is Milk? I admit I had trouble milking an almond: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/milk-mammalian-evolution-nutrition/674487/?utm_source=apple_news
25-06-2023: Cowboys and Indians: Biden Dons Feathered Headdress To Welcome Indian Prime Minister: https://babylonbee.com/news/biden-dons-feathered-headdress-to-welcome-indian-president?utm_source=The%20Babylon%20Bee%20Newsletter&utm_medium=email
24-06-2023: Steve Jobs, “No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there…And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it…death is very likely the single best invention of life. It is life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.” https://unherd.com/2023/06/the-billion-dollar-search-for-immortality/
24-06-2023: Dare we go where
24-06-2023: This will not end well: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/german-politicians-move-ban-eliminate-afd-populist-party/
24-06-2023: Is a civil war looming in
23-06-2023: Adam Smith at 300: The Gospel of Mutual Service: “He described the increase of capital as another great cause of prosperity and said very truly that it was not the result of government foresight, for governments were generally prodigal and profuse, but of the frugality and good conduct of individuals desirous of bettering their own condition” https://reason.com/2023/06/20/adam-smith-at-300-the-gospel-of-mutual-service/
23-06-2023: Is the Jihad over? Only if you are a racist twat: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/06/18/americans-assume-the-jihad-is-over-in-africa-its-bloodier-and-more-aggressive-than-ever-n1704322
23-06-2023: Reflections on the ‘Titan Sub’: Not even enough time to think, “Maybe we should have done more testing”..But who/what was doing the knocking? The same person/thing responsible for the MH370 pings perhaps? Am I paying for the search? Where do I demand my money back?
23-06-2023: Who Knew: The world’s forests already ensure that we are at ‘Net Zero’. Absolutely no need to do any more economy destroying non-science: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/earth-is-already-at-net-zero/
22-06-2023: (Past) time for another Menzies. Who can it be? Andrew Hastie perhaps? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/why-menzies-still-matters/
22-06-2023: I’m afraid we will miss them sorely: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2023/06/why-good-teachers-are-fleeing-the-classroom/
22-06-2023: If you wonder why your vote doesn’t count think how much does it cost to buy an MP: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/these-guys-run-the-world-blackrock-recruiter-caught-boasting-about-buying-senators-cheap/
22-06-2023: “Good news, folks. We can stop raising taxes, banning cars and sending EPA SWAT teams to people’s homes for trying to fill in swamps on their own land.” https://www.frontpagemag.com/climate-change-turns-out-to-be-a-71-year-old-guy-named-ed/
21-06-2023: Time for a ‘good news’ story: https://archive.is/uBmlA
21-06-2023: ‘100 Places to See After Your Die’ – interesting title for a book: https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/06/13/ken-jennings-afterlife-100-places-see-after-you-die/
21-06-2023: “One could argue that not only should the teacher be immediately terminated, one of the students should take over. The kids in this case have more brains and common sense than the so-called adult in the room.” https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/woke-british-teacher-throws-fit-after-girl-mocks/
21-06-2023: Mayo with that? Yeah. Why don’t you just vote for ‘The Voice’ and throw your country away? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/06/in-their-own-words-the-simple-truth-behind-albaneses-vanity-voice.html
20-06-2023: Beatlejuice. It sure will be something to see: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/betegeuse-may-go-supernova-in-our-lifetime-brighter-than-the-moon/
20-06-2023: Your wife certainly had a valid excuse with, ‘I just need to get dressed’ back in 1896: https://twitter.com/UmarBzv/status/1668564492119048194
20-06-2023: One tenth of one degree in 50 years – well within the range of error anyway. Nothing to get excited about. No doubt much the same situation applies most places - except those getting cooler! https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/06/epic-fail-in-americas-heartland-climate-models-greatly-overestimate-corn-belt-warming/
20-06-2023: Exactly. Long since time ‘aborigines’ said, ‘Sorry’, “Aboriginal people must accept that they are no more indigenous than anyone else born in Australia.”: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2023/06/not-sorry-for-not-saying-sorry/
19-06-2023: If the cost of home ownership keeps going up you might also decide to go live in a tree: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/in-need-of-a-tree/
19-06-2023: Some good news from the
19-06-2023: Take careful note: How life on earth was once before destroyed by a shortage of CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/12/how-co2-starvation-plate-tectonics-caused-the-greatest-mass-extinction-the-permian-great-dying/
19-06-2023: A couple more ‘green dreams’ wither on the vine: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/thousands-of-evs-rotting-in-fields-in-china/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/bad-news-for-electric-planes-batteries-only-last-a-few-weeks/
15-06-2023: The huge fires in
15-06-2023: When Andrews brings us even more gibberish: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/bread-circuses-and-moon-worshipping/
15-06-2023: Tucker Carlson Episode 3. Will they succeed in silencing this guy in the same way they are determined to destroy Trump? : https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1668747661028081664
15-06-2023: ‘What a tangled web you weave.’ 'Saint' Britanny and the ‘pub test’: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/saint-brittany-or-scheming-charlatan
14-06-2023: Horrifying! Our leftie political leaders are handing over our country (including our freehold land) to dubious faux ‘aborigines’ who never had to do a day’s work or pay for it (as you did) to the extent even for eg that in WA (after 1 July) you will have to ask ‘aborigines’ before you can do anything on your own land (plant a tree, plough a paddock, graze a sheep etc). Such changes will ultimately lead to a real ‘war’ against such ‘aborigines’ in the future, mark my words. There really will be ‘blood on the wattle’: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-the-slide-in-support-for-the-socalled-voice-to-parliament-has-been-rather-dramatic/news-story/46c942caba6d9743eb410335eff88471
14-06-2023: No more cars – and soon. What the rich want for you: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/and-the-workers-shall-not-own-cars-wef-plan-to-get-rid-of-75/
14-06-2023: The German economy may have to shut down next year. This is the future the Greens have in store for us all: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/vc-habeck-says-german-industry-may-shut-down-hopes-russia-and-ukraine-will-play-nice-on-gas/
14-06-2023: Now the truth is finally out: covid was a bioweapon developed by the Chinese military (to destroy the West). Worked well too, didn’t it? https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/12/bombshell-covid-19-developed-by-military-at-wuhan-lab-n557307
13-06-2023: A truly great survival story: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fworld%2F2023%2Fjun%2F11%2Famazon-plane-crash-colombian-children-survived-on-cassava-and-fruits-family-say
13-06-2023: Absolutely Ron. Our government needs to go back to nation building instead of nation destroying: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/we-have-done-it-before-lets-do-it-again/
13-06-2023: Nearly one in three GenZers want the government to install surveillance cameras in everyone’s houses. These kids have been thoroughly indoctrinated by the ‘march through the institutions’: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/nearly_one_in_three_gen_zers_want_the_government_to_install_surveillance_cameras_in_everyones_homes.html
13-06-2023: “Sixty-six percent of college students think shouting down a speaker to stop them from speaking is a legitimate form of free speech” https://jonathanturley.org/2023/06/10/survey-roughly-three-fourths-of-princeton-students-believe-shouting-down-speakers-is-acceptable/
12-06-2023: Why Trump simply cannot be guilty. He took the documents while he was President and ‘classified’ them as was consistent with his constitutional power. Neither have they fallen into any other ‘hands’. Th whole shemozzle is just part of the ‘coup’ against him. God help us and him that he wins through in the end: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/trump_did_not_violate_the_law_because_he_could_not_violate_the_law.html
12-06-2023: Why there is absolutely no danger to the climate from CO2: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/co2_is_a_climate_red_herring.html
12-06-2023: How
12-06-2023: Good Lord! How crooked can you get? It’s no wonder they ban safe and effective drugs and foist dangerous experimental treatments on the population: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/when-the-government-agencies-that-approve-drugs-are-actually-96-funded-by-big-pharma/
11-06-2023: Tell me what we gain by importing hordes of such people? https://rmx.news/crime/it-is-always-the-maghrebi-types-who-follow-whistle-at-and-insult-me-french-women-recount-their-experience-with-sexual-harassment-from-foreigners/
11-06-2023: “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” Watch what happens here when folks realise they really don't like 'aborigines' for example: https://rmx.news/germany/afd-party-should-be-banned-argues-german-human-rights-group-funded-by-german-government/
11-06-2023: One of the biggest ‘problems’ with the (12) alien spaceships mystery is why after flying zillions of miles to get here they should be so poorly constructed as to crash? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/10/good-reasons-to-be-skeptical-of-alien-spaceship-claims/
11-06-2023: How to deal with ‘junk science’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/09/dig-deeper-learn-more/
10-06-2023:
The new ‘Liquid Piston’ engine will completely destroy them: https://newatlas.com/automotive/inside-out-wankel/
10-06-2023: Tucker, Episode 2. This guy is great: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/breaking-tucker-carlson-releases-episode-2-his-twitter/
10-06-2023: Well said as usual, Bettina – but I fear you have gone too far this time: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/sometimes-men-still-do-it-better
10-06-2023: The latest attack on Trump is just a
continuation of the ‘
09-06-2023: This looks to be a handy gadget. Now if I can just set it off with a motion detector. https://www.amazon.com.au/Perimeter-Reusable-Warning-Security-Property/dp/B0C1ZMJ2XL?th=1 & https://tripalarms.com/
09-06-2023: 104+ million people watched the first new Tucker programme., Sure did a great job shutting him down. Still trying though: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12169523/Tucker-Carlson-broke-media-matrix-Twitter-broadcast.html
09-06-2023: One thing is certain: changes to the solar flux and the PDO are much bigger ‘drivers’ of climate than tiny differences in the amount of CO2: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/06/the-sun-in-june-2023/
09-06-2023: What really happened to the Kakhovka Dam? https://meduza.io/en/feature/2023/06/07/what-really-happened-to-the-kakhovka-dam
08-06-2023: Bizarre footage from security cams. My neighbour has one of these and he swears I ‘would not believe ‘what he has caught on camera. I am now inclined to believe him: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/topless-witches-caught-munching-on-deer-carcass-in-bizarre-cctv-footage/news-story/93c30c8c4a2ba58687a6a83656b46924
08-06-2023: Strange this should be happening if we are having ‘global warming’. Could this be why our Southern Vic tomatoes continue to fail to ripen? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/02/antarctic-ice-shelves-growing/
08-06-2023: The story of the century – might even be true: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/06/new_whistleblower_insists_ufos_have_landed_here_and_the_us_government_has_them.html
08-06-2023: How many people do you think want giant windmills and huge power transmission towers on their land? Not me at least. And all for nothing anyway: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/who-needs-farmers-the-greens-create-10000-km-of-high-voltage-transmission-line-pain/
07-06-2023: Tucker is back – and he’s great: https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1666203439146172419
07-06-2023: ‘It is a matter of opinion,’ or ‘That is just your opinion’ & etc. I am always astonished that people feel that this is a valid riposte: Listen up, folks, there are no matters of opinion; only matters of fact…Everything is either accessible to rigorous testing as to whether it is true or not. If it is not, then it is simply gibberish, and not worth saying, let alone repeating! All the world’s beliefs are like this, ie provable/falsifiable or nonsense. Think: God, after life, socialism, Tim-Tams, etc, etc. Actually that last doesn’t fit the pattern; as Horace remarked ‘De gustibus non est disputandum’ ie ‘In matters of taste, there can be no disputes’.
07-06-2023: Should we celebrate ‘pride’: https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/pride_is_nothing_to_celebrate.html
07-06-2023: Rowan Atkinson’s experience of electric cars is interesting: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/rowan-atkinson-our-honeymoon-with-electric-cars-is-coming-to-an-end/
It is also extremely unlikely that EVs will actually reduce rather than increase CO2 output – as if that mattered anyway: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/no-one-even-knows-if-evs-will-reduce-carbon-dioxide/
07-06-2023:
05-06-2023:
05-06-2023: Will you be able to get by on just one sausage a month? Thank goodness we have our own lambs: https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/05/31/the-threat-to-german-sausages-is-real-n554708
05-06-2023: Cows and sheep are not so bad after all: “Dutch and Irish politicians have failed to recognise that regenerative farming techniques allow livestock farmers to help mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. The technology needed to measure soil carbon accurately has recently been developed by a British company, Ecometric. The results are startling. Some British livestock farmers are now being paid for the net carbon sequestered into the soils after the methane from their burping cows has been accounted for. It would mean changing the way we farm to embrace holistic methods; mainly replacing cereal-based cattle diets with grass, but it can be done.: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F06%2F02%2Firelands-mooted-cow-massacre-warning-to-net-zero-britain%2F
05-06-2023: The true costs of energy. (The world is currently building over 1,000 new coal-fired power stations. Why can’t we have just a few, please?) : https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/06/02/the-actual-levelized-cost-of-energy/
04-06-2023: Clint turns 93: https://twitter.com/HeyJudyH/status/1664006951502508033
04-06-2023: How
04-06-2023: Aren’t we all? https://www.rebelnews.com/australians_sick_of_being_welcomed_to_their_own_country
04-06-2023:
03-06-2023: The plight of English teaching in our schools. Imagine having to have an MA to teach comics and TikTok – and no Macbeth: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/what-is-the-point-of-teaching-english/
03-06-2023: We really should have a Royal Commission into Covid: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/06/garlic-19/
For example, how many died because of the ban on the very effective (early) treatment Hydroxychloroquine? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/covid/2023/05/the-curious-tale-of-hydroxychloroquine/
03-06-2023: Not yet, but maybe soon? https://www.livescience.com/space/extraterrestrial-life/repeated-signals-from-the-center-of-the-milky-way-could-be-aliens-saying-hello-new-study-claims
03-06-2023: The ‘sea of faith’ is waning. Now we are hearing only ‘its long melancholy roar’ as it retreats. Hopefully civilization can still be saved from the climate vandals: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/peak-esg-is-behind-us-investors-throw-out-climate-fantasies-at-exxon-and-chevron/
2-06-2023: The continuing ‘Boer War’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/three-murders-every-hour-south-african-farmers-set/
2-06-2023: Just the beginning of banning flying to ‘save the planet’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/06/climate-lockdowns-begin-for-the-workers-france-bans-short-flights-for-passengers-but-not-private-jets/
2-06-2023: Though ‘primary industries’ are clearly the most ‘renewable’ and sustainable’ they are being targeted by the ‘climate cabal’ for closure. Dan’s shutting the native forest industry (and fisheries) was only the beginning. The real purpose of these moves such as the attack on fertilizer use is to reduce the world population (by starvation): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/06/hohmann-globalists-rev-up-plans-engineer-global-famine/
2-06-2023: We have two million plus public servants in
01-06-2023: Apparently greenies are offering to paint my 25 year old Land Rover – though unfortunately not the colour I wanted. Somehow they have figured that it is more wasteful (even though it does better than 10 km per litre) than ‘modern’ cars and particularly electrics - not figuring in the added cost of producing those new cars as compared with keeping my old one running. Damned fools: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/vandalism-for-the-planet-climate-activists-deflate-tyres-to-try-to-make-it-impossible-to-own-an-suv/
01-06-2023: Who is an aborigine? Why we should reject ‘The Voice’. Well said: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/who-is-an-aborigine/
01-06-2023: Good on you Pauline: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/pauline-hanson-putting-weak-lnp-to-shame-over-palasczcuks-aboriginal-treaty.html
01-06-2023: The ‘internet of things’ just got mighty serious/ Folks will want to delete these things – but will they be able? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/the-next-chinese-tech-threat-is-already-here/
01-06-2023: Albo?
31-05-2023: No trigger warnings. No snowflakes back then: https://petapixel.com/2013/10/29/honored-photograph/
31-05-2023: Nuts to that you might say but your heart does not agree: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/eating-nuts-and-seeds-may-reduce-risk-of-heart-disease/
31-05-2023: Beware when the bogus aborigines take charge: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2023/05/bogus-identity-and-constitutional-change/
31-05-2023: Is the UN climate cabal coming undone: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/un-netzero-cartel-wants-to-make-insurance-firms-into-climate-police-but-giants-are-fleeing/
30-05-2023: I must (not) go down to the sea again: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/researchers-think-other-orcas-are-imitating-a-single-killer-whale-that-first-started-targeting-boats-leading-some-to-sink/ar-AA1bLqmC
30-05-2023: What is wrong with Keynesian economics: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/05/money-out-the-door-australia-in-the-shadow-of-keynes/
30-05-2023: Well said Maggie: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/margaret-thatcher-on-raising-living-standards-for-everyone.html
30-05-2023: Our tomatoes have certainly known it has been getting colder but not the BOM: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/thats-a-big-climate-surprise-frost-season-growing-longer-across-australia-and-for-years/
And it’s been getting colder all over: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/28/cold-grips-globally-alaskas-4th-cold-winter-record-cold-down-underuks-delayed-spring/
29-05-2023: Neil Oliver on how bad the Greens really are. You really need to know about Clintel – and the facts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD9KG-j7C0M
29-05-2023: Unfortunately true: “Polls show as many as two out of three Democrats voters still trust the media, while barely 1 in 6 Republicans do. If the media were not so nakedly biased, those statistics wouldn’t be so skewed.” https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/this-is-what-mind-control-looks-like/
29-05-2023: Important lessons from a long life: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/22/david-von-drehle-book-excerpt-dr-charlie-white/
29-05-2023: Certainly spooky stuff – what once used to prompt vampire legends. No doubt there is a rational explanation: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/miracle-missouri-catholics-flock-missouri-convent-see-exhumed/
28-05-2023: A really big scientific dilemma. CO2 and temperature are not coupled: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/26/the-holocene-co2-dilemma/
28-05-2023: This man,
Norman Borlaug is responsible for saving the lives of over a billion people. If
the climate becomes colder as was predicted in the 1970's (& some current
predictions, see eg: http://wattsupwiththat.com/.../the-cia-documents-the.../...)
we will need several of his kind to prevent catastrophe. Remember this, the Little Ice Age killed something like 1/3rd of
28-05-2023: DNA doesn’t lie. I admit I have been sceptical, though I have trusted friends (fellow hunters) who report having seen one, but if these things can exist in Scotland they can certainly exist in Victoria: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/definitive-proof-huge-black-panthers-29951838.amp?fbclid=IwAR0siCyLy5aWTMmGE9o4yFXXdBuSXawUpWtsotgcs2aJ4P2W2o3s4D1ZGu8
See Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymzlcAXiT-0
28-05-2023: Our state government is hopeless. Under Dan the number of public servants has more than doubled (as has their remuneration – particularly the vast horde of ‘upper echelons’). Meanwhile in the latest budget, spending for road repairs has fallen from approx $700 million to around $400 million. You may need new shock absorbers! You may have also noticed signs springing up which say things like ‘Rough Road Next 4km’. Expect this to rapidly become 40 km! There is a rough road ahead for Vic there’s no doubt. I did not vote for them (or the present so-called opposition).
27-05-2023: Easy Hammock Tarp Centre Line: A centre line is the best idea when using any tarp rather than just trying to tension the tarp back towards the tree against its own weight which is all too likely to damage it or tear out the grommet or tie-out.
You will also want to secure one to the tree/s quickly and easily, so here is a method using just a few readily available plastic bits and pieces. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/05/26/easy-hammock-tarp-centre-line/
27-05-2023: Gina explains
27-05-2023: If only
we could trust how the world temperatures have been measured and recorded – but
we cannot. One thing we can trust however is whether we were able to grow
pumpkins and tomatoes in our gardens over summer (in the higher latitudes like
27-05-2023: The future is rushing towards us – here come the cyborgs: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/elon-musks-brain-computer-company-neuralink-receives-fda/
26-05-2023: ‘Take up thy bed and walk’: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdnyuz.com%2F2023%2F05%2F24%2Fa-paralyzed-man-can-walk-naturally-again-with-brain-and-spine-implants%2F
26-05-2023: Some hope here at last: https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/trial-drug-slow-early-alzheimers-decline/
26-05-2023: You sometimes hear that ‘climate deniers’ are financed by ‘Big Oil’ though I for one am still waiting for my cash, but the money trail motivating ‘renewables propaganda is easier to find: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/media-giant-ap-news-sells-out-journalism-for-just-8m-from-billionaires/
26-05-2023: Horror stories from our Oz budgets. Horror stories from our Oz budgets. ’Dictator Dan’ having put every Vic household in hock for $70.000 is terrible news enough when we often personally ‘have neither a borrower nor a lender been’, but wiping out an entire primary industry (Forestry) at the sroke of a pen has to be som kind of ultimate display of power. It sends shivers down my spine – and tough luck if you want toi build a sturdy lasting residence. I realize that such folks can next be expected to do absolutely anything (‘disarmament’ abolition of private property, the pananopticon state through mobile phone, controlled movement, compulsory euthanasia…I guess they are all on their agenda). And we have several years left of such governments both state and federal before we get to ‘choose’ again. Meanwhile the ‘opposition’ seems to have just joined with them instead as serving as a focus for an alternative approach.
25-05-2023: Happy Birthday Bob: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sldgunY3Fw
25-05-2023: It had to happen: https://babylonbee.com/news/google-doodle-celebrates-first-indigenous-transgender-waterskiier-with-no-legs
25-05-2023: Albanese: 'Liberals May Have Standards, But We Have Double Standards'
25-05-2023: This is how the Greens (and the renewables industry generally) are creating slavery. These people are seriously evil. You may remember how their concocted ban on DDT led to the deaths of 100 million people from malaria. Of course they do actually want the population of the world to be reduced – by whatever means: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/solar-panels-now-in-top-five-worst-slave-industries/
24-05-2023: Interesting to know how a green conspiracy works. Clearly the same strategies exist in the green and black conspiracies in Oz: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/how-the-foreign-funded-climate-cabal-bought-germany-to-its-knees/
24-05-2023: Will ‘The Voice’ be like the UN? You betcha. At least it will not be democratic. It must be opposed with the last fibre of our beings: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2023/05/so-much-talk-so-very-few-answers/
23-05-2023: The adult in the room – Exxon warns of civilisational collapse with ‘Net Zero’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/91411/
23-05-2023: Back from the dead. Might be a good idea to try this out before your loved one departs though, then you could chose which one to keep: https://futurism.com/ai-seance
23-05-2023: Ladies, from now on you are hens: https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/an-egg-producing-female-is-a-hen-not-a-woman/
23-05-2023: So much for good deeds: https://nypost.com/2023/05/22/california-man-fatally-hit-by-car-while-helping-ducks-cross-busy-road/
22-05-2023: Wonder
why (for decades) snow cover in
22-05-2023: I’d say so: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/05/how-america-has-fallen.html
22-05-2023: Now it is absolutely certain that the 2020 election was rigged, the urgent problem is to stop this happening in 2024 – then punish the evildoers: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/former-deputy-national-security-advisor-claims-fbi-cia/
22-05-2023: Another unexpected problem with EVs – and they’ll wear out our roads faster: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/evs-increase-pollution-heavier-cars-wear-out-tyres-50-faster-increasing-waste-and-poisonous-particles/
21-05-2023: Should you blow up your mat by mouth? This has to be one of those great hiking myths like whether you need to filter/purify your drinking water. (in most cases, No, but if you want to consider this post: Trouble With Water Filters).
Folks are convinced that the moisture (nasties?) in their breath will ruin the inside of their hiking mat so they carry an assortment of inflation bags or other devices for blowing them up.
By and large this is just unnecessary weight, like so many other things. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/05/20/should-you-blow-up-your-mat-by-mouth/
21-05-2023: There must be other interesting historical footage around. Maybe none from the Revolutionary War or the French Revolution but many recordings must exist of people who witnessed major C19th events. There is an (audio) recording of Truganini (the last Tasmanian) for example: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/man-born-in-1846-talks-about-fighting-in-the-civil-war/
21-05-2023: The End of Remote Work? http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-end-of-remote-work.html
21-05-2023: More BOM fakery: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/what-if-the-airport-radar-was-generating-false-record-high-temperatures-through-random-electrical-noise/
20-05-2023: Chimney dampers. Our green overlords long ago banned the sale of these in Oz but they are still available on Ebay, Aliexpress & etc (for less than $20). They allow you to use about a third less wood yet produce more heat from you wood stove. Very easy to install, just drill two holes in the pipe and assemble the damper inside it. We have recently replaced our 40+ year old Masport Logger with the newest model (<$900) and put one in the chimney pipe. The old stove came with one. You can see in the pics how well they work. For a month we were using the stove without it. Our wood usage has now dropped by nearly half a wheelbarrow full each day and the house is (more consistently) warmer. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/05/20/in-praise-of-chimney-dampers/
20-05-2023: These Ni Fe (Nickel-Iron - 100 year batteries) which you can use to back up your solar or wind system are available on Alibaba from approx US$165 (delivered) for 400 Ah and US$208 for 500 Ah (per 1.2 volt cell). You would need 10 to provide a 12 volt system, 20 for 24 volt, 40 for 48 volt etc. This works out actually cheaper than lead or lithium and much more reliable. Choice tested several available (mainly lithium) battery systems for six years. Only one actually lasted the six years! They did not test NiFe. The croney capitalists behind the ‘renewables’ boondoggle will not tell you about them. Not enough profit in something which never needs replacing: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/1-2v-400ah-nickel-iron-batteries_1600426449731.html
20-05-2023: Just suppose we were being asked to squander billions of dollars and change all our lives because ‘scientists ‘ had installed faulty equipment: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/what-if-the-airport-radar-was-generating-false-record-high-temperatures-through-random-electrical-noise/
19-05-2023:
Remembering just how wrong
19-05-2023: Something
to look forward to: Wonderful load-sharing blackouts help
18-05-2023: Unbelievable: https://hasanjasim.online/in-a-french-cave-15000-year-old-bison-sculptures-have-been-perfectly-preserved/?fbclid=IwAR0KNzGd8jOtdXN_YCn4tcU_jzMVXLhnU9LgGNO19gMLmABJvO_Cn21vnU0
18-05-2023: Let’s all reject the ‘welcome to country’ and ‘smoking ceremony’ b------t: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/rita-panahi/rita-panahi-woke-athletes-slamming-our-national-holiday-just-not-cricket/news-story/ddeca02554475e07cb4c6a22a7546feb
18-05-2023: Well who knew? I have the perfect body: https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/ai-defines-ideal-body-type-according-to-social-media-heres-what-it-looks-like/news-story/407d1d557c36280c0a6eb407967f4d2f
18-05-2023: Some 'feminists' make me cross: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/perverting-justice?fbclid=IwAR32FbKow0WSSPPVmxkiAyLG8reK_fPdki5ca20t5iZroyPnme5k_dgcurI
17-05-2023: Something else for worry-worts – I wonder what it registers in beer or wine? https://ashbtop.com/products/tm?fbclid=IwAR0S-I9z-f7THPhnbgBMUKsimy43T9vwg-7JpLaiM8j6Cu-fVcXYNGsL1tQ
17-05-2023: Supercapacitors (and NIFe batteries) are apparently a ‘now’ technology for battery backup of your home or replacement battery for your car. We will chose NiFe (Edison) batteries for our home storage system as it is a proven technology which has been shown to last for around a century.This guy has an interesting site: https://micropowergrids.com.au/_Energy_Storage/Super_Capacitors/index.html
17-05-2023: You stole my dreams: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/mit-scientists-create-device-that-can-hack-dreams/
17-05-2023: Ten years
ago and no improvement; nor will ‘The Voice’ bring one. As in
16-05-2023: The unreliability of renewables is just terrifying. It is incredible that otherwise sane people should promote such a disastrous ‘system’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/six-gigawatts-of-total-wind-generation-collapsed-in-16-hours-last-week-and-nobody-cared/
16-05-2023: I have always found them distasteful (at best) if not completely disgusting but they have been spreading like a plague lately. The return of the Picts perhaps. I am somewhat consoled that those people did quite suddenly disappear from history – as I hope this phenomenon will too: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/05/a-shoulder-to-crayon/
16-05-2023: Strange that it is still a world of ‘miracles’. Something defective about human intelligece that it falls for such hocus-pocus: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/vatican-investigating-possible-miracle-us-church/
16-05-2023: The big problem with going organic. Lomborg: ‘Organic agriculture’ could optimistically support 4.7 billion people – ‘Industrial agriculture’ could optimistically support 12 billion – Current global population is 8 billion: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/14/lomborg-organic-agriculture-could-optimistically-support-4-7-billion-people-industrial-agriculture-could-optimistically-support-12-billion-curr/
15-05-2023: We need more Moira Deemings, not fewer: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/moira-deeming-says-shes-not-going-anywhere-in-explosive-interview-with-peta-credlin/news-story/85719918c27246ae5f45a56c15b6f2b8
15-05-2023: Who would have thought: https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/winchester-model-1894-vs-ak47/77834?fbclid=IwAR3V4fW2BpyorPTANBfUdxRBHWWEQOByLIDxzwR7v4lC6dGoYPGt_zmy0sw
15-05-2023: What Ancient Roman Sex Was Actually Like: https://getmegiddy.com/ancient-roman-sex
15-05-2023: There is
no doubt that if we did not sell them
14-05-2023: The original Gidget girl – a nostalgic feast and fascinating reading: https://quillette.com/2023/05/12/the-girl-of-the-endless-summer/
14-05-2023: Hardly a frontier war: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/04/not-a-battle-not-a-war-but-definitely-defiance/
14-05-2023: The angry vegans who probably don’t mind killing people to stop them eating animals: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/world-gone-mad-now-vegan-family-respond-with-second-letter-after-their-complaints-over-a-barbecue-go-viral/news-story/53bb6b941b78e578345347c2d55e42f7?fbclid=IwAR3bLTk5TGTMmCDhzw_u4wtMRB0L8U_dW8hx8qD2DWnmzHuCWPNMj5kc3vs
14-05-2023: This is
13-05-2023: “The
number of whites who were enslaved by the Barbary pirates in North Africa
exceeded the number of Africans enslaved in the
13-05-2023: 5 bird
deaths per MW per year. If we installed 50,000MW that would be 250,000 birds
per year (and not counting bats as well). How many for Net Zero? “The vast
majority of these dead birds will be songbirds. It is ironic that the
environmental movement first took off with
13-05-2023: I will keep eating my lamb chops to ‘save the planet’. Thanks Jo: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/fake-meat-could-make-25-times-more-co2-than-real-beef/
13-05-2023: I suspect this lady has been dating the wrong men. Most men’s lives are much more like the bower birds’ ie spent largely caring for women and children: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/12/classic-first-date-stuff-what-men-could-learn-from-bowerbirds-and-their-courting-efforts?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
12-05-2023: Since they have begun killing whales, birds and bats en masse & etc, I suspect it won’t be long: https://issuesinsights.com/2023/05/05/were-taking-bets-how-long-before-environmentalists-start-attacking-evs/
12-05-2023: Things
are getting serious(ly evil)
in
12-05-2023: This sort
of horror/nonsense/evil should never have been allowed to arise and should not
continue. Making our society more racist (as with the Voice etc) can only make
such situations worse. One
12-05-2023: We have huge and powerful enemies waging a war on our right to ‘free speech’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/the-fake-hybrid-warfare-of-the-censorship-industrial-complex/
11-05-2023: At the
11-05-2023: Like to put your ‘hand’ up for this? https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/05/05/nih-is-looking-for-volunteers-to-study-effects-of-castration-n548550
11-05-2023: The (sinister) power of unelected bureaucrats: https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2023/05/04/eu-ensures-dutch-farmers-booted-forever-from-farming-n548345
11-05-2023: Who shot JFK? This is really interesting: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/mantik-and-corsi-new-book-provides-indisputable-scientific-evidence-jfk-was-assassinated-in-a-crossfire/
However, https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/05/rfk-jr-is-crazy.php
10-05-2023: This is both mad and bad: A Liberal Party which cannot answer the question, ‘What is a woman?’ is determined to expel one (or more) and go down further in the process: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/the-victorian-liberal-party-beyond-farce/
10-05-2023: Meanwhile
10-05-2023: EVs will destroy our roads. The EV ‘revolution’ has not been well thought out. As they weigh over half a tonne more than conventional cars many structure (roads, bridges, car parks) were not designed to handle them (in such numbers): https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/does-500kg-matter-heavy-ev-cars-may-break-bridges-and-car-parks/
09-05-2023: NSW was short of electricity within hours of closing Liddell – when will we come to our senses on this mad Green crusade against coal? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/30/a-couple-of-hours-after-liddell-power-station-closed-aemo-issued-a-market-notice/
09-05-2023: Back to the Stone Age? Hard to believe: https://newatlas.com/electronics/worlds-first-working-wooden-transistor-ewaste-biodegradable-tech/?fbclid=IwAR0fNAHi99MiF_c4mv9BTX9ldacX2RYxFFGYW-1RWgW4RI9c84Ek7VxKjjo
09-05-2023: Ways we should improve our democracy: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/05/02/the-peoples-vote/
09-05-2023: I still had one of these in the 1990s. The world has rapidly gone down the gurgler since: https://rosebyanyothernameblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/14/theres-no-gun-problem/
08-05-2023: Why do the left try to demean the astonishing achievements of Captain James Cook – surely one of the Enlightenment’s greatest heroes: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/the-achievements-of-captain-james-cook-are-a-story-for-the-ages/
08-05-2023: Can you believe this? The TGA has now lifted its Ivermectin ban – but not before thousands of people have died because of its decision to ban it. These people should be tried for crimes against humanity: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/australian-government-tga-lifts-ivermectin-ban/
08-05-2023: A great quote from Roger Scruton, “Vulgar relativism has no hope of surviving outside the minds of ignorant rascals…The writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative’ is asking you not to believe him. So don’t.” and one can hardly disagree with the author’s reasons for ‘preferring’ home schooling. Such a tragedy: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/05/homeschool-if-you-can/
08-05-2023: Extraordinary: ” Sea ice extent off the west coast of Svalbard in the Western European Arctic has been highly variable in spring and summer for centuries: some decades had much less ice, some decades had much more. Currently, there is more ice than was present in early May in many years of the 1600s. Amazing how useful a bit of historical perspective can be in cooling down the hot air.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/06/17th-century-documents-1970s-ice-maps-show-sea-ice-habitat-in-svalbard-has-always-varied-greatly/
07-05-2023: Meanwhile, A.I. Calculates It Will Be More Efficient To Just Let Humanity Destroy Itself: https://babylonbee.com/news/ai-calculates-it-wil-be-more-efficient-to-just-let-humanity-destroy-itself
07-05-2023: Conservatives fight back. I will try these: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/good-news-tusk-is-a-conservative-ai-a-browser-and-a-search-engine/
07-05-2023: Will UATX rescue higher education? Certainly hope so: https://www.city-journal.org/article/college-of-the-future
07-05-2023: If wishes were fishes: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dished-up-by-3d-printers-new-kind-fish-fry-2023-05-03/
04-05-2023: Meanwhile the war in the Ukraine is not going so well: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/a-view-from-the-edge-of-the-abyss-by-thomas-lipsccomb/ The Ukraine’s legitimate leader deplores Zelensky’s attempt to assassinate Putin: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/former-president-dimitry-medvedev-russia-has-no-choice-but-to-annihilate-zelensky-following-drone-attack-and-attempted-assassination-of-vladimir-putin/
04-05-2023: Sundown for Gordon Lightfoot: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/05/sundown-you-better-take-care-singer-songwriter-gordon-lightfoot-passes-away-at-age-84/
04-05-2023: Other nations have a work for welfare rule. Why don’t we? https://nypost.com/2023/04/30/why-the-whining-over-work-rules-for-welfare/
04-05-2023: Great news! https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/05/01/mind-reading-brain-scans-language/4171682958271/
04-05-2023: May Day, or ‘Victims of Communism Day’. We let it pass without even a mention. Just how many people did the Left murder in the C20th? We should include the Nazis (National Socialists) in that. Well over 100 million, likely over 150 million. Yet this dangerous ideology is till being pushed by the nation’s school teachers (and others).: https://www.battleswarmblog.com/?p=1191
03-05-2023: A (Christian?) cult which causes is members to starve themselves to death is (rightly) viewed by most people as evil/nuts: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-65423645 but a global warming/vegan cult which has the same motif is supported by the UN and the Green Left. Science is fighting back however, https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2F2023%2F04%2F29%2Fvegan-diet-meat-scientists-british-beef-livestock-farming%2F
03-05-2023: Is it any
wonder gold is going up. Banks in the
03-05-2023: Our BOM is trying to hide how they are cooking the temperature books. We are unique in relying on faulty (uncalibrated) temperature probes to determine how our climate is changing: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/05/01/bureau-cant-dodge-differences-in-temperature-data/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2023/05/why-is-temperature-data-a-national-secret-bom-still-hiding-data/
03-05-2023: World News still exists but not in the Australian media. Try these: https://www.bbc.com/news/world & https://www.reuters.com/world/
02-05-2023: Cancel Mozart: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/cancel-mozart/
02-05-2023: “No Bricks, No Glass, No Cement” – What Net Zero 2050 Demands: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/29/no-bricks-no-glass-no-cement-what-net-zero-2050-demands-according-to-government-funded-report/
02-05-2023: The Higgins/Lehrmann case is so fraught with injustice and political interference: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/canberras-rough-justice
02-05-2023: You don’t think the NDIS has caused this sort of
thing? Think about the tiny percentage of folks who were TPI (Totally and
Permanently Incapacitated – what it used to be called) after WW2 when there was
an almighty reason there would be lots, as compared to today. We have had an
explosion of ‘disabled’ folks (several times percentage wise) as a result of
‘investing’ in them. Do you wonder why? If you build a trough you will get
pigs, as the old saw has it. In
01-05-2023: Looks very like mass murder on a grand scale to me. (Fortunately we had plenty of sheep drench and malaria treatment on hand - plus zinc and Vitamin D): https://richardsonpost.com/harryo/31356/what-happened-in-hospitals-during-covid/
01-05-2023: Powering the future. Some solid data, “A telling
indicator is that some 70% of people who bought an electric vehicle buy a
petrol or diesel one as their next purchase… Diesel is the first pillar of
civilisation; the other three are plastics, cement and steel… Thanks to
Bergius’ 1931 paper we know that brown coal will yield 5.1 barrels of diesel
per tonne of coal dry weight. So the 65 billion tonnes of brown coal in the Yallourn
Valley of Victoria would yield 166 billion barrels of diesel on conversion.This
is equivalent to 450 years at Australia’s present consumption level. Any fuel
shortage that
01-05-2023: Is it time to ban the LQGBT flag in public places? https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/04/time_to_ban_the_lgbt_flag_in_public_places.html
01-05-2023: All right for the Plebs! German Bundestag Admits Conversion To Heat Pump Systems For Its Own Buildings Not Possible! Yet, expects its own citizens to convert their homes beginning next year! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/29/irony-german-bundestag-admits-conversion-to-heat-pump-systems-for-its-own-buildings-not-possible/
30-04-2023: So Liddell is gone too - like Hazelwood.. AGL’s green overlords will blow it up soon. Hope you have s good store of firewood in the shed for the coming winter (as we have - and a new stove) as there are bound to be blackouts when demand soars whilst wind and solar fail: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/vale-liddell-coal-given-away-for-nothing-and-destroyed-by-predatory-capitalism-and-a-screwed-market/
30-04-2023: When you can no longer make bricks I guess you make your house out of sticks except they have also banned logging. Straw then? They are coming for farming too: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/28/brickworks-closes-west-australia-branch-cites-energy-costs-and-planning-delays/
30-04-2023: Flooding the country with new immigrants. Who wants this? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/immigration-out-of-control-time-to-wake-up.html
30-04-2023: It is a sound parallel - as the original ‘Children’s Crusade’ sold the unfortunate youth into slavery and death: https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-transgender-childrens-crusade
27-04-2023: Beware the chatbots: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/01/did-an-ai-convince-someone-to-sacrifice-himself-for-climate-change/
27-04-2023: No doubt this is the Voice we should listen to: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/how-the-world-sees-albaneses-australia-and-its-voice.html
27-04-2023: How much do you really want to give up to ‘save the planet’ or satisfy your new Green overlords? Forget about cars, air travel, steak, lamb, home heating…Me, I am not willing to give up a single thing: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/absolute-zero-plan-means-no-new-normal-cars-most-airports-gone-and-half-the-beef-by-2030/
27-04-2023: Yes: “I believe more and more people are starting to feel the way I do”: https://ace.mu.nu/archives/404125.php
26-04-2023: Universal stove jack-Fit all tent stove pipes: Another brilliant and thoroughly useful post from the indefatigable Tim Tinker. I was going to have to make a stove jack myself once I perfected my tent stove and chimney, projects which I have not given up on - just that other projects are ahead of them in the queue...such as perfecting the tent! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/24/diy-universal-stove-jack/
26-04-2023: We all know they are doing this – and it is sick! Who do they think will care for them in old age? Who will love or remember them even: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12008035/The-rise-DINKs-dual-income-no-kids-Couples-shun-babies-favor-luxury-vacations.html
26-04-2023: Unlike practically all the others, Tucker actually
stands for something. I think this will be very important down the track as
26-04-2023: After John D Rockefeller (of Standard Oil) saved the whales (back in the 1880s by making kerosene cheap and plentiful), the Greens are once again killing them big time with their off-shore wind farms - just as they are decimating birds and bats too. Great conservationists the Greens, also destroying millions of hectares annually with their ‘National Parks’ wildfires & etc: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/skeptics-are-saving-whales-while-greens-lobby-for-industrial-plants-in-the-wilderness/
25-04-2023: Sacking Tucker only confirms that the Fox payout
(to Dominion) was simply a signal that the
Something particularly dirty involved I would say. Fox
probably owns Dominion through some shell company anyway. There is just too
much quite hard evidence that the 2020 election (and several previous ones)
were rigged against conservatives in multiple ways. The
25-04-2023: Big Brother will create truth. You will get this: https://summit.news/2023/04/20/tiktok-to-censor-content-that-challenges-global-warming-dogma/ Instead of this: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/40-years-of-expert-failure-new-noaa-star-satellite-temperatures-only-show-half-the-warming-that-climate-models-do/
25-04-2023: Can’t make electricity out of it; can’t make a profit out of it…Scrap it: https://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Wind-Power/Wind-Power-Has-A-Profitability-Problem.html
25-04-2023: I will not ‘acknowledge country’ either. What a
lot of bull: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/03/why-i-will-not-acknowledge-country/
PS: How awful that the Dawn Service in
24-04-2023: At last, something you can do to prevent Alzheimers: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/04/20/sleeping-aids-Alzheimers-disease/2961682008414/
24-04-2023: Snowfalls are now a thing of the past: https://reason.com/2022/04/22/after-53-earth-days-society-still-hasnt-collapsed/
24-04-2023: A flat-pack EV for US$11000. If electricity could be ‘found’ to run it this might be a ‘game changer’ for city folks: https://www.freethink.com/transportation/microcar?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_campaign=echobox_freethink&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2I3zXXl2uXshpEF6zjP7K_IElDbhFuJnrrLgl9yWLZywjMcndFs5tBoUs#Echobox=1682197393
24-04-2023: We are living through a complete break down of law and order. Police do no respond to thefts and break-ins any more (what good are they?) and we are largely disarmed, thus unable to protect ourselves. It is long since time that the lash and the rope were brought back. If we shortened people who sought to steal from us there would be no shortage of human spare parts, and public safety would increase very quickly: https://www.rebelnews.com/aussies_scammed_out_of_a_record_high_3_1b_in_2022
23-04-2023: A new fetish – castration. It is astonishing that young people who could not have a tattoo without parental consent can yet have large sections of their anatomy removed: https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/04/13/its-time-to-recognize-and-medically-affirm-eunuchs-n543718
23-04-2023: The many lies of the covid era: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2023/04/the_lies_about_hydroxychloroquine_were_the_worst_of_the_covid_era.html
23-04-2023: Absolutely - long since time for ‘aboriginal’ Australians to say ‘Thank You’ for being rescued from an awful existence and culture, and also long since time you all stood on your own two feet and shifted for yourselves, instead of biting the hands that feed you: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/04/blunt-truths-from-an-old-bushie/
23-04-2023: 19,000 new volcanoes, yet the models correctly
predict the climate? One was discovered in just 2010 that was the size of
22-04-2023: Back to the 50s: https://donsurber.substack.com/p/desantis-wants-to-bring-back-the
22-04-2023: We were told 80% of aborigines supported ‘The Voice’. Mind you all you need to do to ‘be’ an aboriginal is identify as one. Then you get all these extra rights and perks. Maybe sign up today if you have to self-pride: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/albaneses-vanity-voice-yes-campaigns-bullshit-survey-of-aborigines-they-asked-300-.html
22-04-2023: Contrary to a century old protocol (Stevenson
Screens) in the 1990s two changes were made. They changed the paint on the
screens and they replaced minimax thermometers with electronic ones. They did
no calibration of these two changes, calibration which had been occurring (in
22-04-2023: Our Green BOM masters have just thrown away science (and history) in pursuit of their global warming religion. You pay for this (big time): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/20/parallel-temperature-data-except-for-cape-otway-lighthouse/
22-04-2023: Happy Birthday Liz: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/today-would-have-been-her-majesty-queen-elizabeths-97th-birthday-long-live-the-king.html
21-04-2023: This is just b------t. We loved this campsite. Locking us out of our own country after paying welfare for 250 years. Both have to stop: https://www.sgst.com.au/news/bear-gully-campsite-closed?fbclid=IwAR0E66ZyFNqC75gVz-JRWxM2DKTYRpngGoJ-2OF1WjxOvOTUJ72hX22PFz4
21-04-2023: Let children work – or even require that they do: https://reason.com/video/2023/04/17/let-teens-work/?utm_medium=email
21-04-2023: Should the BOM be renamed the ‘Ministry of Truth’? Honestly heads should roll over this – quite literally. Once judges (public servants) were highly paid to prevent (such) corruption, but now the corruption is endemic and is being used to control us and indeed to transform society. Back then corruption (eg of judges) was punishable by death – a sound principle. If we subtracted the warming ‘caused’ by the changes to the Stevenson Screens (size, paint, measuring device) we would end up with a world-wide cooling over the same (approx 30 year) time period: https://electroverse.info/australias-bureau-of-meteorology-caught-red-handed-cooking-the-temperature-books/?fbclid=IwAR0PDJu4ynXgMsvRrB9m1Kl5VfDU-rBrxuakJ6a3-8an21ZcRNe9AlElMq0
21-04-2023: Lidia Thorpe's father on his 'very racist'
daughter. How many of the new faux aborigines are like her rather than like
Jacinta Price whose mother is a full-blood and whose living grandmother was one
of the very last people to make contact with European society when emerging
from the
20-04-2023: A robotic laser weeder – what a great idea: https://carbonrobotics.com/autonomous-weeder
20-04-2023: Curing prostate caner in only one hour – bring it on: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/landmark-surgery-cures-prostate-cancer-in-under-one-hour
20-04-2023: Say ‘Goodbye’ to cheap flights: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/19/the-end-of-cheap-flights/
20-04-2023: The UN wants to decriminalise pedophilia. Do you
need any further reason why we should stop funding and supporting this awful body.
19-04-2023: Preen: the new glyphosate for busy gardeners (Trifluralin is the active ingredient of Preen. Google it for prices cheaper than the brand name): https://www.preen.com/learn/how-preen-gardens-works/
19-04-2023: The ‘cashless society’ is sinister – just another way to control us. We should avoid it. Take paper money out and use it for all your transactions: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.telegraph.co.uk%2Fbusiness%2F2023%2F04%2F17%2Fcash-becomes-less-useable-high-street-goes-contactless-boe%2F
19-04-2023: Of course EVs are ‘unfit for purpose’. They are the same as all the other Hegelian nightmares which accost us. ‘Falsifying’ everything which has traditionally been accepted as real is not a viable way forward. Many things are simply true, always have been and always will be, eg that there are two sexes, men and women. The attempt to destroy such reality is just an attack on our sanity and the soundness of our society: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/17/unfit-for-use-more-ev-woes/
19-04-2023: Looks like the climate ‘religion’ is losing its effectiveness especially amongst the young who have been most indoctrinated with it. This was also a symptom found eg in the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. (Read Mitchener’s Road to Andau) Those who rebelled and took on tanks with just their bare hands were most often those who had been propagandised most with ‘the communist faith’. It should serve as a warning to those who continually seek to subvert us (‘to make the worst appear the better reason’ – as Socrates put it) that ‘the people’ can become very angry when they decide to reject their new masters en masse, and will take the law into their own hands: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/democrats-independents-and-young-americans-losing-faith-that-climate-change-is-man-made/
18-04-2023: Budweiser Replaces Clydesdales With Cows Dressed As Horses: https://babylonbee.com/news/budweiser-replaces-clydesdales-with-cows-dressed-as-horses
18-04-2023: Strangely enough if you take your dog to have a sex change they just throw you out. How can this even be legal? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/gender-comedy-gold-at-the-pet-clinic/
18-04-2023: “Clearly the international efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are having no obvious impact. This is unsurprising since global energy demand continues to grow faster than new sources of renewable energy can make up the difference.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/14/co2-budget-model-update-through-2022-humans-keep-emitting-nature-keeps-removing/
18-04-2023: When the workers of the world unite against wokeness: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/the-french-left-is-becoming-anti-woke/
17-04-2023: The Golliwog War: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/british-police-raid-pub-seize-racist-dolls-in-hate-crime-investigation-defiant-owner-replaces-dolls-and-puts-them-back-up/
17-04-2023: ‘I’ll drink to that’ doesn’t seem to apply to the trannie phenomenon: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/anheuser-busch-suffers-astounding-3-billion-loss-while-bud-lights-new-brand-ambassador-dylan-mulvaney-whines-they-dont-understand-me-video/
17-04-2023: Where people live. Most of the world is wilderness: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/a-map-to-change-the-way-you-think-about-the-world/
17-04-2023: Do you want this here, “Half of Germans will no longer be able to afford a car” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/15/cars-soon-unaffordable-for-50-of-germans-expert-warns/
16-04-2023: At least Rishi knows one thing: https://www.aol.com/rishi-sunak-says-100-women-073310025.html
16-04-2023: Tens of thousands of ‘excess death’ per year in Oz and practically no-one wants to report it: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/australia-hasnt-seen-death-numbers-like-this-since-wwii/
16-04-2023: Do we really want to hand over our sovereignty to an unelected UN body clearly run by radical Marxists – after the last ‘pandemic I don’t think so: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/leo-hohmann-biden-regime-leading-all-nations-into-global-beast-system-that-would-require-compliance-with-digital-health-tyranny-enforced-by-u-n-world-health-organization/
16-04-2023: There has in fact been only half the warming predicted by the IPCC’s climate models (in forty years). This is much more consistent with the natural warming of the world just continuing to emerge from the Little Ice Age than anything else: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/14/ross-mckitrick-the-important-climate-study-you-wont-hear-about/
15-04-2023: I think we all know about this one: https://babylonbee.com/news/child-grows-out-of-carseat-before-dad-can-finish-installing-it
15-04-2023: The disappearing redheads: https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/why-are-redheads-being-erased-in-media
15-04-2023: Reparations (and apartheid) are the elephants in the referendum room. Of course every self-identifying ‘aborigine’ wants to be a millionaire – without working for it. Who wouldn’t? Where do I join? Oh, wait a minute; someone has to pay. Are you really going to vote to make every (faux) aborigine a multi-millionaire? https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2023/04/an-ambassador-for-reparations/
15-04-2023: Maybe you think witchcraft trials ended (in New
Salem) in the C18th? They are alive and well in
14-04-2023: Astonishing: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-05/michelle-lee-first-woman-rower-pacific-ocean-solo-237-days/102193290
14-04-2023: Exercise is better than drugs – hard to believe: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/exercise-therapy-is-better-than-drugs-for-common-type-of-heart-failure/
14-04-2023: Dallying Lama - Weird old guy: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/dalai-lama-issues-apology-for-asking-young-boy-to-suck-his-tongue/
14-04-2023: “Badly behaved students have no right to take away the education of others.” Well said Tom Lewis. How is it that today’s young teachers (quitting the profession in droves) do not know this: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/education/2023/04/how-to-help-teachers-make-the-grade/
13-04-2023: Silnylon Deerhunter’s Tent Progress: I know I have promised the pattern and instructions (or even production and sale) of this for years following my original post about it in The Deerhunter’s Tent way back on May 12, 2016. I also realise heaps of people have made (its progenitor) their own Tyvek Solo Fire Shelter using the pattern and instructions I posted there and so are keen for an updated version…But I have intermittently ‘worked’ on it, and following my post about and invention of the DIY Ultralight Sprung Tent Pole Extension last week I thought I was pretty close. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/12/silnylon-deerhunters-tent-progress/
13-04-2023: Best Reagan joke: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/ronald-reagan-joke/
13-04-2023: The (Centrelink) benefits of polygamy (call it what you will): https://www.yourlifechoices.com.au/centrelink/centrelinks-changed-polyamory-rule-offers-extra-benefits
13-04-2023: At last Germans have given up on green energy – Did anyone else really believe in it anyway? https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/germans-have-given-up-on-green-energy.php
12-04-2023: Retro Ultra Light: https://firemaplegear.com/products/orange-camping-gas-lantern?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=paidsocial&utm_campaign=wx-test&fbclid=IwAR3VtiR8HbnOzTc8w-jGAJl759cvIFjyhq3aPKbnWsFssjTzE-cAokkyMWo
12-04-2023: Absolutely, “The solution to the gap lies in doing what the overwhelming majority of Aboriginal people have done, abandoning segregation and becoming fully assimilated.”: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/menzies-warned-us/
12-04-2023: I will say it out loud (and risk the brickbats): the trannie phenomenon is just pure evil, Satanism for our times. There are over 6,000 genetic differences between men and women. Everyone who was ever born was one or the other. There has never been a single person born who was both. Sexual ‘dysphoria’ is a mental health condition; that is all: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/04/09/men-aint-women-and-vice-versa/ & https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/society/2023/04/how-fashionable-to-prescribe-the-cruellest-cuts/
12-04-2023: Glimmers of Light? Sure hope so: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/10/climate-hysteria-in-the-dark-age-are-we-seeing-glimmers-of-light/
11-04-2023: Better than a pack rifle? Unless
you live in somewhere like
Here is an example of a ring gun. It would certainly give someone a nasty shock, though they are intended more as an interesting (working) souvenir !
11-04-2023:
Has
11-04-2023: Breathes There The
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
'This is my own, my native land!'
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned,
As home his footsteps he hath turned,
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonoured, and unsung.
11-04-2023: Will smart phones make you happy? Perhaps jusr as well for me that I have stuck to a tiny fob pocket phone which pretty much never texts or goes on the internet – thugh I confess to taking photos with it sometimes: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/the-plague-of-mental-illness-in-teenage-girls/
10-04-2023: A credo from the Funeral Speech of Pericles:
“We do not copy our neighbours but try to be an example. Our administration favours the many instead of the few: this is why it is called a democracy. The law affords equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, but we do not ignore the claims of excellence
The freedom we enjoy extends also to ordinary life; we are not suspicious of one another, and do not nag our neighbour if he chooses to go his own way. But this freedom does not make us lawless. We are taught to respect the magistrates and the laws, and never to forget that we must protect the injured. And we are also taught to observe those unwritten laws whose sanction lies only in the universal feeling of what is right.
Our city is thrown open to the world; we never expel a foreigner. We are free to live exactly as we please, and yet we are always ready to face any danger.
We love beauty without indulging in fancies, and although we try to improve our intellect, this does not weaken our will.
To admit one’s poverty is no disgrace with us; but we consider it disgraceful not to make an effort to avoid it.
We consider a man who takes no interest in the state not as harmless, but as useless; and although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
We believe that happiness is the fruit of freedom and freedom that of valour, and we do not shrink from the dangers of war.
To sum up, I think that
10-04-2023: So now it is official: around the same number of people died from the vaccine as from covid – how much suffering and death could have been prevented cheaply and easily with Vitamin D, Zinc and Ivermectin? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/vaccine-damage-300000-deaths-in-the-us-148-billion-lost-and-10-say-a-member-of-their-house-died/
10-04-2023: The futility of wind (and solar) power: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2023-4-1-important-new-report-explores-the-futility-of-wind-power
10-04-2023: The Decline of the West: Oxford Uni replaces
9-04-2023: Back to the future – reviving the
9-04-2023: 'Envy is the emotional core of deconstruction. Its opposite is a work ethic...Aquinas notes that it befalls someone who believes that someone else’s gain is his loss. It derives from seeing the world as a zero-sum game.' Stuart Schneiderman . A very interesting article. We can become ‘our better selves’, or as Buddha notes ‘eliminate desire’ and so find happiness: http://stuartschneiderman.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/the-politics-of-envy.html
9-04-2023: At last a real ‘climate related’ death. I’m sure many of us have wished nosey self-righteous people ‘were dead’ though most would not act on such a wish: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/04/07/did-a-queensland-woman-die-because-of-a-recycling-bin-dispute/
9-04-2023: The National Disability Insurance Scam – how closely it resembles the ‘National Indigenous Scam’: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/04/pauline-hansons-please-explain-the-ndis.html
8-04-2023: The ‘Liquid Piston’ engine certainly looks like a great advance: https://newatlas.com/automotive/inside-out-wankel/
8-04-2023: Fascinating Reflections on (a) Paleolithic Venus – as many cults inform them today as when they were created: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/trying-to-make-sense-of-the-venus
8-04-2023: You were told FDR was not a communist: https://fee.org/articles/fdr-s-other-day-of-infamy-when-the-us-government-seized-all-citizens-gold/
8-04-2023: Why Some cancers shouldn’t be treated: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2023/04/05/why_some_cancers_shouldnt_be_treated_891881.html
7-04-2023: DIY Ultralight Sprung Tent Pole Extension: Never have your tent sag again! I mentioned this idea in my previous 1600th Post. I have been into the hardware this morning, bought a few cheap nick-knacks which will make several, and quickly constructed a couple using 19mm (3/4″) poly irrigation pipe. Took only a couple of minutes. Cost (way) less than $10 each. They weigh 20 and 22 grams for the shorter and longer versions. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/06/diy-ultralight-sprung-tent-pole-extension/
7-04-2023: Only in Qld: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230406-australian-police-seek-pair-seen-with-platypus-on-train
7-04-2023: Kel Richards is right. We need to amend Section 51 of the constitution to abolish racism forever not insert a new apartheid into it: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/to-abolish-racism-fix-the-constitution/
7-04-2023: What an excellent beginning to understanding how to ‘fix’ the education ‘system’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/the-devolution-of-western-teaching/
06-04-2023: 1600 Posts: Today marks my 1600th post here at The Ultralight Hiker. Quite a milestone. And time maybe to recall the last hundred or so – or roughly the last year. A year ago in February (2022) I finally ‘bit the bullet’ and had that pesky worn old left knee replaced with a shiny new titanium one. See A New Knee. Three months later ( a little early) I was trying it out on a short hiking trip into the Vic Alps something like the one in the post A River Somewhere. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/05/1600-posts/
06-04-2023: Mothers of Sons. I think it’s great that someone loves men – it’s just that it’s not the law. Coercive control laws are sinister: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/call-in-the-troops
06-04-2023: When the tyranny of the minority dominates the majority: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/04/88-of-germans-dont-believe-in-the-solar-and-wind-green-energy-transition/
06-04-2023: Seems like Daniels lied about having an affair with Trump anyway, but who cares who had (consensual) sex with whom twenty years ago? https://360newslasvegas.com/breaking-evidence-stormy-daniels-lied-about-trump-affair/
05-04-2023: Now you can eat mammoth – even vegans ought to approve of this: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/scientists-create-lab-grown-meatball-from-dna-extinct-woolly-mammoth-to-spark-debate-about-climate-change-crisis/
05-04-2023: 152 shots fired – 6 dead. The
05-04-2023: This most inbred Family underlines the undesirability of this (culturally) popular choice in some community groups: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11931011/Inside-inbred-family-Members-Whittakers-family-BARK-people-grunt.html
05-04-2023: “It doesn’t matter how loved or respected you are – or how much you have contributed during your life. These activist ideologies are ruthless and populated by a generation that cares nothing for respect or achievement. Like the ‘Great Leap Forward’, we are watching the mass purging of reality.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/richard-dawkins-committed-the-cardinal-sin/
04-04-2023: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/massive-ocean-discovered-beneath-the-earth-s-crust-containing-more-water-than-on-the-surface/ar-AA19lg7R
04-04-2023: Recollections of My Slavery Days. “I have lived
through the greatest epoch in history, having been born August 10, 1835, at
But I lived to see the institution of slavery into which I was born and of which I was for many years a victim pass away. I wore the uniform of those men in Blue, who through four years of suffering wiped away with their blood the stain of slavery and purged the Republic of its sin. I met, too, that great man who led those men as their great Commander-in-Chief; he shook hands with me, yes, talked to me. I can still see his sad, tired worn face as he spoke to me that day. And in those days since I was whipped simply because it was thought I had opened a book. I have seen the books of the world opened to my race. And with the help and sympathy of God's good people I have seen them make a beginning in education. And in my old age when a nation across the seas sought to enslave the world as once my race was enslaved, I saw the boys of my race take their place in the armies of the Republic and help save freedom for the world.” https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/singleton/singleton.html
04-04-2023: It had to happen: Very first short film made entirely by AI. Pretty impressive. Even humour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dtSqhYhcrs
04-04-2023: If the police won’t act, why not DIY: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/san-antonio-man-uses-apple-airtag-to-track-down-thief-who-stole-his-truck-then-fatally-shoots-him/
03-04-2023: (Della): Nice little crop of orange pumpkins - well done Steve! We opted for a quick-maturing variety this year due to the late summer season; I suspect that my preferred Queensland Blue variety would not have ripened in time! Cherry tomatoes are producing nicely now, although the larger varieties are only going to get to the green tomato pickle stage. Fortunately we love green tomato pickles.
This harks back to my post about growing them from seed back in Spring: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/.../short-season-crops/ These guys were from Diggers and were called 'Potimarron' The 'Blue Ballet' pumkin did well too over a cold summer - and the Romanesco Zucchini were spectacular.
03-04-2023: Does AI need to be banned to protect humans from extinction? I doubt we have long to consider this: https://www.theepochtimes.com/if-we-go-ahead-on-this-everyone-will-die-warns-ai-expert-calling-for-absolute-shutdown_5163074.html
03-04-2023: Well said Alexandra. She has a fine way with words, “Imagine a generation being so stupid that they were born eating the best, cheapest food in human history and yet long for a diet of lab-grown garbage and soy-fried cockroaches so they can attain a higher social status on TikTok. Only a cult could damage people’s minds so badly.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/04/the-politics-of-hunger/
03-04-2023: No wonder we have a teacher shortage – better to
get a job in a bar, “Studies in the
03-04-2023: Aston & onwards: Libs, grow a pair. Forget about Labor-Lite. And blast the Greens to hell and gone: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/peta-credlin/peta-credlin-liberals-need-to-get-back-to-being-true-conservatives/news-story/b109d5067f96725d938c1c9aa3fd407b
02-04-2023: Best Ultralight Hiking April Fools’:
02-04-2023: Spreading Out: People need to be more widely dispersed in the back country, the very opposite of the (Nuts to) Leave No Trace folk, who have got it all wrong. I know you may not want to hear this, but please read on: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/04/01/spreading-out/
02-04-2023: 'Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys'. P J O'Rourke.
02-04-2023: Thanks Bettina, “We live in a society that is so busy highlighting women’s drudgery that men simply aren’t allowed to complain about being forced to work full-time all their lives to pay the mortgage, often in jobs they hate, whilst many women still have choices.” Then there’s living seven years’ less: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/women-work-harder-than-men-phooey
02-04-2023: When the junk education on offer is just not worth the cost – and kids would be much better off just working anyway: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/poll-majority-of-americans-now-think-a-college-degree-isnt-worth-the-cost/
01-04-2023: Now we know plants feel pain – it’s not just mandrakes which scream – does this mean the end for vegans? https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vice.com%2Fen%2Farticle%2F3aknn3%2Fplants-make-sounds-when-hurt-scientists-confirm-and-now-you-can-hear-it
01-04-2023: T.Rex’s smile was quite different to
01-04-2023: ‘Age segregation’ is not a ‘lay down misere’. For example, young people (and many others) would benefit from learning about the virtues of hard work: https://instapundit.substack.com/p/the-age-barrier-and-its-costs?sd=pf
01-04-2023: Get Trump’ or ‘Get Democracy’? The coup in
31/03/2023: Happy 90th birthday Michael Caine: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/30/wolfmanoz-at-the-movies-64/
31/03/2023: Should you be concerned that IQ is falling – I think so: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fstudyfinds.org%2Famericans-iq-test-scores-drop%2F
31/03/2023: Has
31/03/2023: Mark Latham has never been reknowned for his
tact but ‘unpersoning’him because of what is/was a perfectly normal (if
somewhat graphic) view about sodomy (not so long ago a serious crime – boiling
in oil in Henry 8’s time, but still gaol until a decage ago) is over the top. We
should not all have to kow-tow to the homosexual lobby’s views. If we still
find their behaviour and beliefs aberrant, abhorrent or plain disgusting (or
even that they should be re-criminalised as happened recenty in
Of course many of us would have wanted to respond (as Latham did) to being described (by the gay MP) as being a ‘disgusting human being’. People who live in glass houses: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/one-nation-mark-lathams-stunning-response-to-backlash-over-homophobic-tweet-about-sydney-mp-alex-greenwich/news-story/0f4b6eafb5ffd29ca0050654e44da767
30/03/2023: At last- something for nothing: https://blog.sciencenatures.com/2022/10/the-impossible-quantum-space-engine.html?fbclid=IwAR3UXl1b1yb95IYBjCLFWA9XQ35U4SP5L8zuVwCLUgsAZCAhTavZoCA2bDk
30/03/2023: The Perfect Ultralight Firearm: How lovely is this? A miniature single-shot .22 calibre pistol which weighs a mere 7 ounces (200 grams).Our restrictive gun laws in Australia mean that I can't have one, but one can wish. Introducing the Trailblazer Lifecard Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/03/30/the-perfect-ultralight-firearm/
30/03/2023: Did the BBC commission someone who hates Dickens to adapt Dickens? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/the-bbc-has-ruined-great-expectations/
30/03/2023: This might (just) work for me, “Humans to achieve immortality in 8 years, says former Google engineer” https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/humans-to-achieve-immortality-in-8-years-says-former-google-engineer/ar-AA19bs7a?li=BB122DJx
29/03/2023: Looks like Oumuamua was not Alien after all: https://www.wsj.com/articles/mysterious-space-object-oumuamua-not-alien-scientists-say-d6f2ccd0?mod=djemalertNEWS
29/03/2023: Please save us Tony. As Menzies did, create a new ‘Liberal’ Party out of the multitude of conservative groups jockeying for our vote. Enough of Labor and Labor-lite. Call it the Conservative Party. They would romp home - for decades: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/tony-abbott-weighs-in-on-nsw-election-result-saying-the-liberal-party-must-stand-for-something-and-take-its-members-seriously/news-story/643f0381a5639fe10db185e225505f01
29/03/2023: How do you think a referendum on this ‘net zero’ nonsense would go here? Would anyone except a few evil lunatic greens vote for it? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/this-is-why-we-are-not-offered-a-climate-referendum-82-didnt-endorse-it/
29/03/2023: “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell, 1984.
28/03/2023: So now we know: https://www.popcorn.org/All-About-Popcorn/What-Makes-Popcorn-Pop
28/03/2023: Progress at last! Breaking the glass ceiling –
at last (trans) women are mass murdering folks in the
28/03/2023: The most mysterious thing about these petroglyphs is that if they are 8,000 years old (as claimed) how they are at sea level still: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/the-mystery-of-this-petroglyph-covered-alaskan-beach-180981858/
28/03/2023: “As citizens, it is our responsibility to make sure we are never again so easily manipulated into committing abuses of human rights on our peers. If the state asks us to violate every pillar of civilisation – tell them ‘no’”. Another great article by Alexandra Marshall: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/were-vaccines-a-political-treatment-for-public-fear/
27/03/2023:
27/03/2023: The terrifying danger of Putin’s hypersonic missiles: https://richardsonpost.com/alex-krainer/30930/russias-hypersonic-weapons/
27/03/2023: Aboriginal Australians oppose ‘The Voice’: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/_we_are_one_australia_fair_australia_indigenous_delegation_demands_to_be_heard_in_canberra
Here’s Warren Mundine’s take on it: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/warren-mundine-albaneses-so-called-voice-a-dangerous-con-job.html
27/03/2023: Wrong Again: A 'time traveler' predicts our future: Aliens will conquer earth on March 23: https://amp.marca.com/en/lifestyle/world-news/2023/03/18/6415fbfe22601da5518b4587.html
26/03/2023: Don’t buy a new computer. Solid State Drives (SSDs) are great. I transformed our two computers with these (Western Digital purchased from Amazon – approx $100 for 1Tb, $200 for 3Tb - delivered in two days) and used EaseUS to clone them, then replaced them. The old ones can still be used for back-ups. The difference in speed is just unbelievable. Better than a new computer really. You can do this yourself.
The other essential (also inexpensive) is upgrading/adding RAM. Look up the max RAM your chipset/motherboard will take and install it. It just plugs right in to the motherboard. This is also likely to costs only $50-100. System 'cleaning' software is also good. We use Norton Utilities but there are lots of others (CClean etc).
26/03/2023: ‘Organic’ mumbo-jumbo. You would have to be infantile to believe this stuff is actually good for you or for the planet: https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2023/03/21/viewpoint-challenging-myths-organic-farming-fleeces-consumers-and-does-not-significantly-promote-sustainability/?mc_cid=78d2e2950c&mc_eid=214af8a3b7
26/03/2023: People with real Doctorates in Theology (whatever that might mean) could surely object to Ms Thunberg and Kermit the Frog being awarded one: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/24/greta-thunberg-doctor-of-theology/
26/03/2023: Sleep may be more important than food yet we have ignored the dramatic change in our sleeping ‘habits’ (and its consequences) –what could have caused this: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/a-tired-civilization-sleep-deprived-people-are-more-corrupt-lazy-deviant-apathetic-and-free-loading/
25/03/2023: Thanks Bettina: Coercive control – how the new weapon against men may backfire as women are past masters (mistresses?) at it: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/coercive-control-con-job
25/03/2023: Secrets of the Ice emerge as the Little Ice Age continues to retreat. Note that all these artifacts got there during the Middle Ages when the earth was clearly a lot warmer than it is now: https://secretsoftheice.com/news/2020/04/16/mountain-pass/?fbclid=IwAR2PfiIUVbYF7W6GE9jRofDU3VjXiKJrjCXgTYzLHbjLVkIA5rAAxSdAUrQ
25/03/2023: What is it with ‘Dictator Dan’ seeking (only now – after 80 years) to ban the’Nazi Party’ and all its symbols? When we had a referendum about whether Australia should ban political parties (in the 1950s) , in that case the Communist Party – not much different really – the referendum was lost because Australians believed in freedom of speech and belief, even though we had only recently fought a war against that particular ideology. At least then we got a say in it, but not now. The real way to expose the flaws in someone else’s ideology though is if there exists a free flow of ideas and discourse. Banning things only makes them more attractive without exposing them to the rigor of public debate. This is foolish. The Nazi symbol (the swastika) is to be banned as well but not the just as hateful ‘rising sun’ (Nippon) image which has been clearly incorporated in the so-called ‘Aboriginal’ flag which now flies over many of our public buildings - along wth the hateful ‘rainbow’ flag. We got to vote and have our say about those too, didn’t we?
25/03/2023: How woke are chatbots? https://notthebee.com/article/just-got-invited-to-try-googles-new-ai-chatbot-and-i-asked-it-the-same-question-about-biden-and-trump
24/03/2023: Ultralight beer for hiking: https://newatlas.com/lifestyle/powdered-beer/
24/03/2023: “Rights and liberties must systematically
constrain governments, not the other way around… Women and girls are suffering
in
24/03/2023: You might think the huge swing to the ‘Farmer’s
Party’ in
24/03/2023: “What sort of pollutant is it that when you remove it, everything dies.” Richard Lindzen (probably the world’s pre-eminent climate scientist) about CO2 being a pollutant: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/23/climate-change-isnt-particularly-dangerous-richard-lindzen/
23/03/2023: Just Wow! 15,000 year old bison sculptures: https://hasanjasim.online/in-a-french-cave-15000-year-old-bison-sculptures-have-been-perfectly-preserved/?fbclid=IwAR0KNzGd8jOtdXN_YCn4tcU_jzMVXLhnU9LgGNO19gMLmABJvO_Cn21vnU0
23/03/2023: Industry (union) super funds – I hope you are not expecting to retire on them. They clearly have shonky accounting practices and are being milked by the same thugs who run the unions. Can I suggest you move your funds ASAP to a self-managed fund? We have been doing so for many years. We do our own accounting and the audit plus lodgement costs us $450 per year. That is all. Every other red cent is ours. Please compare with your own fund which will be charging you several percent of the (supposed) total amount, eg 3% of $200,000 or $6000 – which would be much better in your own pocket (in the long run). This is (probably) the biggest leftie scam currently running: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/business-robbery-etc-111/
23/03/2023: Write offs. Another great feature of EVs they forgot to tell you about: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/the-not-so-sustainable-evs-that-have-to-be-written-off-after-a-scratch/
23/03/2023: Students behaving like this deserve the stick and teachers should be able to use corporal punishment to discipline them. This woke nonsense went too far long ago. Pavlov was right. Pain is a great teacher: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/nsw-teachers-association-all-talk-nowhere-when-needed.html
22/03/2023: Doubtless people who make false rape allegations have some sort of serious issue but that does not mean that their crime should go unpunished: https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/stanford-worker-false-rape-claims-perjury-suspect-jennifer-gries/
22/03/2023: Yay: “A referendum proposal that would enshrine unambiguously the limiting of the power of the state over the people, would ensure that one constitutional change will get up this year. That is a referendum we can all vote yes to!” https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/17/a-constitutional-change-that-we-all-can-agree-on/
22/03/2023: The Lord’s Prayer, a central tenet of Christianity for 2,000 years. Even if you are an atheist, there is so much wisdom here:
22/03/2023: Remember when as C S Lewis put it, pride was the greatest of sins, but being proud of sodomy is for me a step too far: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/20/pride-cometh-before-the-fall-into-dissolution/
21/03/2023: Flashman 200! Probably my favourite literary character: https://quillette.com/2023/03/17/a-jolly-good-scoundrel/
21/03/2023: I have to say that I fell for the line that anti-fluoridationists were nut-jobs but it now seems they were right after all (and that it dd not even reduce tooth decay): https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/03/17/blocked-govt-report-finds-fluoride-lowers-kids-iq-case-heads-to-court/
21/03/2023: While the IPCC’s AR6 continues its speil (like a fundamentalist cult) that we are all going to burn, in the real world hundreds of thousands of animals are freezing and starving to death: https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/03/20/half-of-antelope-in-rawlins-red-desert-could-die-as-brutal-winter-hammers-wyoming-wildlife/
21/03/2023: About that ‘Nazi’ salute. Listen to what Moira Deeming says – particularly read the last paragraph: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/statement-from-victorian-liberal-mp-moira-deeming.html
20/03/2023: Do we live in (Swift’s)
Sound familiar? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/18/a-simple-reason-why-net-zero-is-impossible/
20/03/2023: An ‘idyllic’ pre-European existence: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/03/contemporaneous-account-of-aboriginal-savage-tribal-war-and-cannibalism-in-gundagai-.html
20/03/2023: What you can do with GPT-4: https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/how-to-use-gpt4-image-shows-the-world-has-changed-forever/news-story/0b7970ad1415744f7e7eb94ed6116ec6 You can try it for free: https://www.livemint.com/technology/tech-news/users-can-now-try-gpt-4-without-going-through-a-waitlist-here-s-how-11678956604155.html
20/03/2023: Are you a ‘starseed’ or are you just bleeding nuts? https://www.sciencealert.com/people-among-us-identify-as-aliens-inside-the-starseed-phenomenon?fbclid=IwAR2e_jvdXaoTn-pPVjZUppxV_QPn_LklnF2zmu6aC8dhdW9vJevWFIofskM
19/03/2023: Way before the pyramids there was Dolmen
19/03/2023: Yes, you will be able to have gin and tonics on Mars: https://hasanjasim.online/stunning-photos-show-huge-crater-on-mars-full-of-ice/?fbclid=IwAR3hg1g6CLnnfzpiQ92ydthkeB6Tm1tBBIpDZt73wFtn8UaUL6US5JLynAo
19/03/2023: Revenge is sweet: https://www.ranker.com/list/historic-acts-of-revenge/will-morgan-1?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=post&pgid=144361577286&utm_campaign=historic-acts-of-revenge&fbclid=IwAR27klfg6hVzAOdzc0T0JsiBmUeVPvuRfS-_VoTe-KErtmGC4DdfSDjHvJk
19/03/2023: A brief guide to ‘Newspeak’. BTW: have you
noticed recently the odd meme “diversity is our strength” replacing ‘Unity is
strength” as if a chain was no longer “as strong as its weakest link” or that
“pulling together” was worse than having a “fifth column”: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2023/04/equity-language-guides-sierra-club-banned-words/673085/?utm_source=apple_news
Do you remember when migrants had to pass an “assimilation” test? ie they were expected to fit into Australian society, and
support themselves. I wonder if the current spate of ‘First (Worst) Nations”
types had this test applied to them would any be allowed to settle/remain in
18/03/2023: Getting things ready for the beginning of ‘The Moon is a Harsh Mistress’: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetimes.co.uk%2Farticle%2Frolls-royce-plan-to-put-nuclear-reactor-on-moon-p3r3q5k3w
18/03/2023: Well, I can imagine some worthwhile purposes to which it might be put (defence of ‘home and hearth’ etc – of course you would have to build a chimney first) : https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/03/16/feds-say-wyoming-man-has-no-right-to-make-his-own-machine-gun/
18/03/2023: Understanding the difference between ‘equality’
and ‘equity’ – a lesson from
18/03/2023: Clive Palmer really did try to save Australians from dying of covid (and would have saved many lives if governments hadn’t banned his procedures). Now they should be charged and gaoled for ‘crimes against humanity’. So far over 20,000 Australians have died from this and how many have died or had their lives blighted by (compulsory) experimental MRNA vaccines? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/clive-palmer-donated-37m-doses-of-hcq-and-1m-for-research-and-the-australian-government-destroyed-both/ PS: I suspect if he wasn’t so fat he would have been PM.
17/03/2023: Mitchell River Overnight: We have canoed this section of river before but not as a two-day (weekend) overnight trip and not at such a low water level.
I completed this section by myself in 9 1/2 hours paddling (in a packraft) and could have shortened it by another hour if I had exited at Bull Point on Czydel’s Rd instead of Angusvale (Mitchell River National Park), meaning that a (longish) day trip is possible for this excellent section of river.
If you can exited at Scotts (don’t know whether the gate is locked), you would save another hour and avoid three closely spaced Grade 3 rapids just below Scotts (beginning with the Surprise rapid – it is). It is possible to portage all three (recommended) along the right bank. Younger people (or more water) would speed this time up even further. I am 73.
I started the trip at the Castleburn Creek confluence (about
a kilometre along the
The gauge height was 1.62 on the Waterford gauge and .72 on the Glenaldale gauge, but rose slightly as I went along due to some rain the day before and overnight during he trip (to 1.64 and .77 respectively). At this height I had only to get out about 6 times (the first day for a few yards), but I scraped the bottom many more times. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/03/17/mitchell-river-overnight/
17/03/2023: More anti-aging. Bring it on: https://mindblog.dericbownds.net/2023/03/an-arthritis-drug-mimicks-anti-aging.html
17/03/2023: Jacinta Price – some common sense in the racist mess that is ‘aboriginality’: “I am half Warlpiri and a mixture of Irish, Scottish and Welsh. My sons are of Warlpiri, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Malay, Indian, French, African, Chinese, Scandinavian and German ancestry. My stepson is half Scottish and a quarter Mauritian. They are all 100 per cent Australian…Most of the self-identifying indigenous members of our community who claim to feel hurt by Australia Day being held on January 26 would also have white ancestors in their family trees and may not even have been born if the First Fleet hadn’t come.”
17/03/2023: With apologies to R.M.Renfield the Dracula (Brad Stoker) character who had the same dietary obsession:
17/03/2023: The UN is just dreadful. Guterres (its head) is a mouthpiece for the most evil propaganda, this time that (conquering) Islam is the religion of ‘peace’: https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/03/15/un-secretary-general-for-well-over-a-millennium-islams-message-of-peace-has-inspired-people-n1678525
16/03/2023: The Tale of a Rail: A Lewin Water Rail. Della now tells me that there have only been 146 confirmed sightings of this bird in the last 150 years! So I/we have been astonishingly fortunate. Imagine our consternation to find it tangled in the bird netting around the strawberry bed this morning! They clearly like strawberries as blue-tongued lizards do! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/03/16/the-tale-of-a-rail/
16/03/2023: (Maybe) a room temperature superconductor at last: https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-claim-creation-of-a-superconductor-at-near-ambient-conditions?fbclid=IwAR0gH4ea-IiiqY5Ki2Zt7kDMz7ZuNTmXCLVh6kLT1lDQsSzFLrycgriBt8c
16/03/2023: No wonder Biden wants to ban Tik Tok – are the Chinese communists behind this too? https://nypost.com/2023/03/13/critics-say-viral-trad-wife-movement-romanticizes-sexism/amp/
16/03/2023: Of course it is a religion and as such should receive no government funding or support: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/rasmussen-poll-shows-60-of-americans-believe-climate-change-is-a-religion-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-climate/
Just a few ‘for examples’: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/15/climate-crisis-what-climate-crisis-part-one-the-evidence/
16/03/2023: The real problem is that most ‘education’ is just worthless – that’s why so many of the best and brightest eschew it: https://www.thecollegefix.com/associated-press-frets-about-young-adults-choosing-work-over-college/
13/03/2023: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed The Roman Republic. Fascinating reading – though maybe not as compelling as Shakespeare’s version: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ffreebeacon.com%2Fculture%2Fthat-time-a-republic-really-ended%2F
13/03/2023: Just how mad/bad are the Greens? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/greens-off-on-another-planet/
Does anyone really think they will ever build anything a fraction as great as Monash did? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/03/monash-betrayed/
Other countries are beginning to wake up to this green nightmare and reverse direction – will we before it is too late, or is it already? https://stopthesethings.com/2023/03/10/reality-bites-europes-wind-solar-disaster-forces-serious-reversal-on-green-transition/
13/03/2023: Can you ‘detoxify’ yourself from unwanted effects of the covid vaccines? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/dr-peter-mccullough-on-the-holy-grail-of-covid-19-vaccine-detoxification-2/
13/03/2023: Righting the wrongs of the past is impossible. Why people who never owned slaves should write checks to people who never were slaves is inexplicable.Will ‘blacks’ one day be forced to pay compensation for eating the ancestors of ‘white’ folks. We have similar idiotic (and unhistoric) nonsense here in Oz where every person became an equal citizen under the law from 26 Jan 1788 on: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/03/minnesotans-to-pay-reparations-for-slavery.php
12/03/2023: The search for
12/03/2023: Some of the forces of evil at work in
12/03/2023: An examination of the whole
12/03/2023: Yet we have attacks on the very ‘staff of life’ like this: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/dutch-government-sends-military-trucks-and-military-gears-as-farmers-plan-the-biggest-demonstration-yet/
12/03/2023: Tough times ahead? If you remember last year several Chinese banks collapsed. Now it is US ones. I may have been right to put much of our savings into gold stocks after all: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11847965/Financial-markets-brace-following-Silicon-Valley-Bank-death-spiral-bank-stocks-50.html
11/03/2023: Charles Kingsley was right. Imagine finding one of these in your garden. A Lewin Water Rail. We admit the garden has become a bit overgrown, but we also suspect the fox-proof fence is helping make a haven for various unusual critters. I was slashing some umbrella sedge which had becomes a little too enthusiastic when this little guy scuttled out and went to hide in the asparagus patch. It is only the second one I have ever seen. “No-one can say water-babies don’t exist because no-one has ever seen one not existing.”
11/03/2023: Rare Cat Found Living On The Tallest Mountain In The World: https://www.beautyofplanet.com/rare-cat-found-living-on-the-tallest-mountain-in-the-world/?fbclid=IwAR3Ot1H1goTfd7gdZAJcXp0W3p9bZL9bj1qxlnPLv099_43XxjNUyOGQmhI
11/03/2023: How far can you go with libertarianism: https://thepostmillennial.com/sex-positive-fat-activist-says-men-with-rape-kink-should-be-able-to-pay-to-drug-consenting-women
11/03/2023: Just when you thought men might become redundant it is women’s turn: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/scientists-in-japan-create-mice-by-using-two-fathers/
10/03/2023: The legend of a ‘lost white tribe’ in
10/03/2023: The EPA is also unfit for purpose. All it really does today is crusade for green causes and enhanced authoritarianism. Here’s a case in point. Another is the nonsense crusade against gas stoves: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/09/pm2-5-mass-killer-or-mass-fraud/
10/03/2023: I think I will just go and eat worms: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/05/cinderella-citizens-ard-public-broadcasting-expects-regular-germans-to-eat-worms-live-in-squalor/
10/03/2023: During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his “indecision” and “moral equivalence” may encourage Russia’s Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine’: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/02/28/Flashback-Palin-Mocked-in-2008-for-Warning-Putin-May-Invade-Ukraine-if-Obama-Elected-President
09/03/2023: Who’d have thought – a 3D printed space rocket blasts off: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/worlds-first-3d-printed-space-rocket-is-ready-for-launch/
09/03/2023:
09/03/2023: As Ukrainian troops in Bakhmut appear to falter Biden seems to be ramping us up for WW3: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/is-nato-bluffing-or-is-it-beefing-up-forces-to-back-a-ukrainian-offensive/
09/03/2023: Nick Cater in The Australian: “In a normal world, a rise in the export price of coal from $US80 a tonne in January 2021 to today’s price of about $US300 a tonne would have been a signal for the finance markets to invest in new mines, railways and wharves. Yet almost no such investment has been made….
Potential investors, including the big banks, are sinking money instead into the utopian dream of greening the grid and electrifying everything, a project that will cost between $US3 trillion and $US4.5 trillion incidentally, according to a 2022 study by McKinsey.
An ESG rule for super would potentially free up a lazy $3.3 trillion more to be thrown at that project. The 15.6 million Australians who own that capital might or might not think that to be a good thing. Under a government intent in removing their agency, they may find it difficult to object. As Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones said, the government’s concern is the health of the hive, not the bees who made the honey.” Sheer bloody lunacy.
08/03/2023: Wings Over Fiordland: I have written about this wonderful airline, Wings And Water before. For our 50th anniversary we just had to have a flight into Supper Cove (since we did not quite make it on our walk) and a tour of Dusky Sound and some other beautiful fiords: Breaksea, Dagg, Doubtful, etc.
The flight took approx 2 1/2 hours and cost around $500 each (for five people), though I suspect Kylie gave us a discount as being long-term return customers. Well worth it though whatever the cost, believe me. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/03/08/wings-over-fiordland/
08/03/2023: I now have two new eyes. I chose these lenses: AcrySof IQ Vivity® IOL because they give both distance and excellent intermediate vision with the ability to read things on the computer or held at arms length. I have some excellent folding reading glasses which clip onto your pocket for reading. The eyes are still settling down – I am less than a week out from having the second one done, but I can certainly say that it was a good decision. I have better all-round vision than I have had for years and can now see where I am putting my feet down on difficult ground very clearly. I can also see in rain and humid conditions without that nightmare of having one’s glasses fog up. I am now also back to having better than 20:20 vision, which is great: https://www.myalcon.com/international/professional/cataract-surgery/iols/vivity/
08/03/2023: Is the mammoth on the way back? https://www.beautyofplanet.com/28000-year-old-woolly-mammoth-cells-brought-back-to-life-by-scientists/?fbclid=IwAR3mGOdMxnCwIJS1s8ULGlTV_pYDASv7TPlAzFtf_iPJbFmCDcHVFaM4ON8
08/03/2023: Are EVs evil? I think the answer is, ‘Yes’: https://issuesinsights.com/2023/03/02/its-time-to-admit-it-evs-are-evil/
08/03/2023: Just in case you don’t think the ‘deep state’ is
running
07/03/2023: Remembering Auden: https://www.thefp.com/p/things-worth-remembering-w-h-audens?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=260347&post_id=106264168&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
07/03/2023: Welcome to degrowth communism. “I used to think Communism, with its famines, purges and abuses, was probably the worst system of government which could be inflicted on people. Now I know better.” Perhaps you can see how this pernicious ‘theory’ has already infected the woke classes. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/05/degrowth-communism-green-communism-whose-explicit-goal-is-destroying-the-economy/
07/03/2023: More negatives re the ‘absent father’ syndrome – and same sex marriage: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/06/some-thoughts-on-mothers-drag-queens-trans-groomers-grooming/ PS: If we had a true referendum about this today I doubt it would be passed.
07/03/2023: Our BOM is simply not fit for purpose. Anyone 40 or older can remember how much colder it was in the 80s, then how much hotter in the 90s and now how we haven’t had a summer for three years – yet the BOM manufactures ‘the hottest year ever’ every year. The satellite records show practically no change over the average temperature during all that time (+.08C of one degree). Indeed the last ten years it has been cooling: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/just-another-warm-summer-day-made-to-look-like-hell-on-earth/
06/03/2023: It is not just
06/03/2023: Lies, damned lies and politicians: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/03/05/lying-occasionally-or-for-all-seasons/
06/03/2023: Where will the materials for the ‘green revolution’ come from – mining the sea perhaps? https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/hidden-costs-ecological-realism-and
06/03/2023: Good luck with our being able to defend the country: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fmore-75-americans-aged-17-24-arent-fit-military-service-dod
05/03/2023: Can
05/03/2023: The Federation Cross – Spot On Viv: https://australianclimatesceptics.com/?p=805
05/03/2023: The woke war on the world’s food supplies: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kenya-gmo-approval & https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/04/farmers-blockade-eu-capital-to-fight-fertiliser-restrictions/
05/03/2023: Democracy has declined so much that even the
dead and the brain dead are ‘representing us’. This may not be far from the
truth. I suspect the public has declined similarly. The problem is not
exclusive to the
04/03/2023: Seems very unlikely that
04/03/2023: Who knew? A ‘cure’ for homelessness – likewise many similar socially undesirable traits I am willing to bet: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/a-must-read-for-democrat-mayors-how-one-ca-republican-mayor-eliminated-homeless-population-in-his-liberal-state-video/
04/03/2023: The electric car ‘market’ collapses: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/03/free-market-squeals-subsidies-end-and-electric-vehicle-sales-collapse/
04/03/2023: There goes that pain in the back! Bring it on soon, Please: https://newatlas.com/medical/single-injection-chronic-lower-back-pain-relief/
03/03/2023: Alan Moran does a good job of calling out the hucksters and shamans of the environmental movement - as well as putting it in an interesting historical context. As I have said a hundred times, there is not a scintilla of evidence for this bizarre cult: https://zephr.spectator.com.au/2023/02/climate-change-short-on-proof-drowning-in-nonsense/
03/03/2023: “Media, Education System Are “Racist Against Whites And Asians” Scott Adams didn’t get away with saying this obvious truth. Let’s see how Elon Musk fares: https://www.weaselzippers.us/489039-elon-musk-media-education-system-are-racist-against-whites-and-asians/
03/03/2023: What is Andrews on - raising the age of criminality. Thugs of 10-14 know they are doing wrong. Five year olds know they are doing wrong. All this will do is increase the size of and worsen the criminal classes. We should bring back corporal punishment. Here’s a similar example: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/update-florida-student-who-viciously-beat-unconscious-teacher-over-nintendo-switch-will-be-charged-as-adult-was-arrested-three-times-for-battery-in-2019/
03/03/2023: The Mandela Legacy – this is the future the Left wanted. Do you want it for Oz too? It is coming if we don’t wake up: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1629707620792582146.html
02/03/2023: So long ago already: the Soviet Union ended on Australia Day 1991, 32 years ago – yet (listening to the Labor Party, Greens etc banging away in Parliament) I realise so many on the Left still hanker for just the same old class warfare and the same old commie notions that held over half the world in slavery for 70 years – and still enslave China!
02/03/2023: ‘Just trust the science’, they said: https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjkgap/scientists-now-want-to-create-ai-using-real-human-brain-cells
02/03/2023: This story of John Franklin is much like the
lives of so many ‘aborigines’ I grew up with in the
02/03/2023: A huge increase in death and disability amongst
the young. Seriously disturbing stuff. We have so far
lost over 20,000 people to covid most of them unnecessarily if only sensible
health measure as in
Those excess deaths are up 43%: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/breaking-by-ed-dowd-society-of-actuaries-excess-death-numbers-released-for-december-in-age-group-under-44-number-is-43-higher-than-expected/
01/03/2023: There is an interesting critter called ‘rubisco’. It’s not a biscuit. It’s not even a critter either really, just the most common protein on the planet. It’s made by ‘chloroplasts’ which are not some evil chemical fluoridationists add to the water supply but just the most common photosynthesis factories on the planet. If these two interestingly named things (rubisco, chloroplasts) did not exist, there would be no life on the planet and we would not be here arguing about whether they can or can not transform a little more CO2 into useful things to avert the great heat death which awaits us all - if you believe some panicky chicken-little folks!
01/03/2023: Fair point – the ‘global warming that wasn’t (global): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/27/non-global-warming/
01/03/2023: I am so over the gender wars. I have never been a ‘bad man’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/the-sin-of-masculinity/
01/03/2023: We suspected this all along: https://babylonbee.com/news/confirmed-resurrection-was-complex-april-fools-day-joke-that-got-disciples-tortured-killed
28/02/2023: Before you go stir crazy at this, let me tell you that a year ago I ‘cured’ a sheep of a cancer which had always killed them before every time with fenbendazole, a cheap sheep worm drench which has been around most of my life. I am about to start on another one today. If/when I get it I will be drenching myself in the same way. Costs about 20 cents a day and certainly won’t do any harm anyway: https://veryvirology.substack.com/p/curing-the-incurable-cancer
28/02/2023: For a year now we have been led towards WW3 over
the
28/02/2023: Meanwhile, for the first time in 100 years it is
snowing in
28/02/2023: Bettina on Higgins: ‘evasive, unco-operative and manipulative’. This woman should not have been handed millions of our dollars without evidence and a verdict. Similarly Lehrmann deserves a chance to be exonerated: https://bettinaarndt.substack.com/p/evasive-uncooperative-and-manipulative?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=448263&post_id=103978759&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
27/02/2023: Mushrooms will save the world: https://www.theverge.com/23610087/mushroom-plastic-waste-research
27/02/2023: We are running out of oppressed classes in need of saviors, so apparently, we must expend every more effort to find people to save: https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/02/23/a-major-civil-rights-victory-that-will-change-america-forever-n532630
27/02/2023: Should there be government funding of public education? It is a good question. Ask yourself how much food would cost if its production, distribution etc was a owned by the government. There would be mass starvation. I think everyone realises this. What then are the advantages of having education, health, welfare, defence etc in public hands? Surely the outcomes would be better if they were all managed privately and government shrank enormously? https://zephr.spectator.com.au/2023/02/is-it-time-to-defund-public-education/
27/02/2023: The CO2 Scam. I just hope you realize that there has not been a single shred of real evidence for this (false) hypothesis – but vast amounts of evidence that it is false. Just the fact that during multiple ice ages the CO2 level was higher than it is now should be enough to wake you up: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/jo-nova-wins-the-dauntless-purveyor-of-climate-truth-award-2023/ & https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/former-reuters-science-writer-slams-climate-hysteria-promoted-by-todays-media/
26/02/2023: Beware super-massive runaway black holes: https://www.livescience.com/runaway-black-hole-the-size-of-20-million-suns-found-speeding-through-space-with-a-trail-of-newborn-stars-behind-it?utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=livescience&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2N0_q2Cpqh8Q8TBHYOzCA5NG2L3v5AKqTByK0LRZaNnwQNTxgrSJUQ0oo
26/02/2023: Just when we are absolutely certain CO2 is not responsible for ‘global warming’, instead is an enormously beneficial gas (to life) and that natural gas is largely abiotic and ubiquitous so that all our energy problems are ‘solved’ for pretty much all time, we decide to destroy our economies and societies by banning both. I guess this is what happened to the Ja’ins a few thousand years ago when they decided that it would be ‘wrong’ to eat anything living…
26/02/2023: Words women use – I think maybe this guy understands women better than I do: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/38419-Words-women-use.html
26/02/2023: P.J O’Rourke was just great. He went missing a year ago today, eg “The poor of the world cannot be made rich by redistribution of wealth. Poverty can’t be eliminated by punishing people who’ve escaped poverty, taking their money and giving it as a reward to people who have failed to escape. Economic leveling doesn’t work. Whether we call it Marxism, Progressive Reform, or Clintonomics, the result is the same slide into the stygian pit. Communists worship satan; socialists think perdition is a good system run by bad men; and liberals want us to go to hell because it’s warm there in the winter.”: https://amgreatness.com/2023/02/24/remembering-p-j-orourke/
25/02/2023: The triumph of the autochthons: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2023/02/today-nearly-half-billion-people.html
25/02/2023: What do you suppose ‘commendable’ means then: https://wirepoints.org/not-a-single-student-can-do-math-at-grade-level-in-53-illinois-schools-for-reading-its-30-schools-wirepoints/
The same trend here: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nsw/strict-school-discipline-will-give-aussie-students-the-best-chance/news-story/3136f894d7d6a0ca51d04bb0701fbba2
25/02/2023: It probably will kill you but who would eat it anyway when there is lamb? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/are-they-trying-to-kill-us-lab-grown-meat-backed-by-bill-gates-has-cancer-cells-and-could-cause-other-scary-health-issues/
25/02/2023: But why not give it a shot? https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/new-skin-rotting-drug-is-literally-turning-drug-users-into-zombies/
24/02/2023:
24/02/2023: Whether they are ‘gravity batteries’ or some other kind, intermittent energy storage will never keep up with continuous energy demand. If you don’t want carbon emitting energy you simply have to use nuclear. It is the only current feasible option. Wind-up toys no matter how big will not cut it: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Could-Gravity-Batteries-Win-The-Energy-Storage-War.html
24/02/2023: “Healthy soil, the underpinning of civilization throughout history, is created in interaction between grazing animals and soil microbiology. Peer-reviewed research from Rodale has shown how regenerative agriculture can sequester more carbon than humans are now emitting”: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/the-ecologist-who-says-we-need-huge-herds-of-cows-and-sheep-to-stop-desertification/ Has to be better than shooting 14,000 elephants anyway – besides I like lamb.
24/02/2023: We must reject this utterly undemocratic (and racist) ‘Voice’. Who does it represent, how will representatives be chosen anyway, and why should they have control over the vast majority ‘s democratically elected representatives? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/the-voice-will-almost-certainly-have-the-power-to-block-the-government/news-story/4881474896302fb00a5cbd4b3f8e1ff3
23/02/2023: Paperless. For how long has this been a weird
green dream? Soon we are to find out as
23/02/2023: Jeanne Calmert took up smoking at 112. It only took ten years to kill her: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/21/longevity-expert-3-reasons-the-worlds-oldest-person-lived-to-122.html
23/02/2023: More neat tricks from the
23/02/2023: It didn’t work. I wonder how data would compare Novavax ad Ivermectin treatment to what was forced on everyone? “If the entire medical system were a mafia cabal designed to create Pfizer profits by banning cheap drugs and useful tests, while guaranteeing indemnity in secret contracts and forcing drugs on people who didn’t want them, what exactly would our Minister of Health have done differently?” https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/18-months-too-late-natural-immunity-is-almost-as-good-as-vaccination-except-when-its-better/
22/02/2023: I long since had enough of perversion and have called it what it is for many years no matter whether my views are stigmatised or criminalised. No amount of force will turn good into evil – or the reverse.: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/02/21/perversity-under-liberalism/
22/02/2023: A Doubtful Deluge:
We were ‘lucky’ enough to be ‘cruising’ the Doubtful on a beautiful rainy day. This drove most of our fellow travelers indoors, but Della and I relished the rain out on the deck. This deluge transformed the whole Sound into a million waterfalls. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/02/21/a-doubtful-deluge/
22/02/2023: Solar-powered lighter. Forget the BIC. These guys have lighting a fire (or even a cigarette) covered: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solis-x-world-s-first-solar-rechargeable-lighter#/
21/02/2023: Canoeing the Hollyford 21/02/2023: Canoeing the
Hollyford: There are many wonderful sights along the
The guy reckoned this was Grad 3+. I beg to disagree. I have canoed a lot of Grade 3 water in Oz but it was nothing like this, which has to be Grade 4/5 I think.
They were doing an approx 12 minute trip down from the
viewing/parking point by the river above the
21/02/2023: The Irish are wimps: https://headlinereporter.com/2023/02/irish-man-died-after-being-attacked-by-chicken/?utm_source=rm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=em
21/02/2023: Stem cell transplantation cures HIV: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11772327/Man-CURED-HIV-D-sseldorf-patient-virus-free.html
21/02/2023: Indisputable evidence covid was around in 2019 – so where exactly did it come from, who made it – and why? https://billricejr.substack.com/p/early-spread-evidence-in-one-document
21/02/2023: Is Snowy 2.0 the greatest Green disaster ever: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/snowy-2-0-could-win-prize-for-most-globally-stupid-green-engineering-project/ & https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/02/20/the-debacle-of-snowy2-0/ Remember it is costing (much) more than several coal or nuclear plants which would deliver several times the electricity constantly for 50+ years and at a fraction of the cost per kilowatt hour. NB: We have Turnbull (& Rudd) to thank for the hopeless NBN too.
20/02/2023: Alas that O’Rourke is no more: "The Free Market Is a Bathroom Scale
The free market is the greatest repository of our freedoms. Economic freedom is the freedom we exercise most often and to the greatest extent. Freedom of speech is important—if you have anything to say. I've checked the Internet; nobody does. Freedom of belief is important—if you believe in anything. I've watched reality TV and I can't believe it. Freedom of assembly is important—if you're going to an assembly. Most people are going to the mall. And, at the mall, they exercise economic freedom.
The free market is not a creed or an ideology that political conservatives, libertarians, and Ayn Rand acolytes want Americans to take on faith. The free market is simply a measurement. The free market tells us what people are willing to pay for a given thing at a given moment. That's all the free market does. The free market is a bathroom scale. We may not like what we see when we step on the bathroom scale, but we can't pass a law making ourselves weigh 165. Liberals and leftists think we can.
The free market gives us only one piece of information, but it's important information. We ignore it at our peril, the way the leaders of the old Soviet bloc did. They lost the cold war not just because of troops or tanks or Star Wars missile shields. Even Reagan and Thatcher couldn't win the cold war by themselves. They needed allies. And the allies were Bulgarian blue jeans. The Soviets lost the cold war because of Bulgarian blue jeans. The free market was attempting to inform the Kremlin that Bulgarian blue jeans didn't fit, were ugly and ill-made, and nobody wanted them at any price. People wouldn't wear Bulgarian blue jeans—literally not to save their lives. But the Kremlin didn't listen. And the Berlin Wall came down".
P. J. O'Rourke. Excerpt(s) from ‘Don't Vote It Just Encourages the Bastards’
20/02/2023: A good news story about gun ownership: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/02/el-paso-mall-shooter-stopped-cold-bystander-pulls-weapon-fires-police/
20/02/2023: How woke can you get? https://www.outono.net/elentir/2023/02/13/the-spanish-government-legalizes-bestiality-and-imposes-prison-for-injuring-a-rat/
20/02/2023: Imagine if you fled one
totalitarianism only to discover another. “At
19/02/2023: People are failing the AI ‘mirror test’. This is not quite what you might think it is, but on the other hand I wonder how many real people could not prove they were sentient: https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test PS: Only this morning Della received a ‘compilation’ from Google Photos of ‘water fountaining’. Google’s AI had put together a host of photos of us with waterfalls etc – which it clearly recognized, all by itself.
19/02/2023: As Tucker points out our constitution prevents our government from having (or establishing) a religion – but that’s just what the ‘climate cult’ is. We need to urgently push back against this nonsense: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/18/tucker-carslon-the-climate-cult-has-grown-stronger/
19/02/2023: Back in the 1930s there was a board game about
how to turn your country into a communist ‘utopia’. None of this stuff ever
dates. I have just re-read Michener’s ‘The Road to Andau’ about the Hungarian
‘Revolution’. I think you should too. (I found a ‘free’ copy on a torrent
site). I had (almost) forgotten how awful the Soviet ‘system’ was – and how
enthusiastically 99% of Hungarians rejected it (to their great loss! I don’t
know whether you remember the Melbourne Olympics water polo match, but I do.)
Yet today we are rushing to just the same state control (of everything) in
19/02/2023: What an extraordinary poll! ‘We the people’ need to take back our countries. We need to be the government and have much less government. The sooner the better: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/half-of-americans-believe-the-media-is-trying-to-mislead-them-and-the-people-running-the-usa-are-unknown-to-voters/
18/02/2023: A Taste of the Kepler Track: Undaunted by our (unsuccessful) fiftieth anniversary foray on the Dusky a couple of days later we decided to give the Kepler Heli-Hike a try. It involves a (claimed) 3 1/2 hour walk down from the Luxmore Hut to Brod Bay on the Western shore of Lake Te Anau (pretty accurate - for us anyway) as well as a helicopter ride from Te Anau to a peak a little further up the range (from Mt Luxmore) before landing at the hut to begin the walk. The walk culminates in a water taxi ride back to Te Anau instead of another 3+ hour walk. The cost was NZ$325 per person. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/02/18/a-taste-of-the-kepler-track/
18/02/2023: We need more old men: https://instapundit.substack.com/p/the-power-of-old-men
18/02/2023: Ah, the rubber! Hat’s off to ‘The Bed Sitting Room’: https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/im-sexually-attracted-to-objects-and-i-make-out-with-balloons/
18/02/2023: Maybe Biden did shoot down a ‘party balloon’ but how long before a passenger jet hits one of these? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/02/did-the-us-air-force-just-use-an-f-22-fighter-jet-and-a-sidewinder-missile-to-destroy-a-13-hobby-balloon/
17/02/2023: Dusky Track 50th Wedding Anniversary Walk: Della has covered much of this ground already (on Facebook) but I have a few snippets to add (and a link to my hiking blog): https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/02/17/dusky-track-50th-wedding-anniversary-walk/
17/02/2023: If I have seemed somewhat quiet (since our return from Fiordland) I have been getting new eyes (well, one so far). Two days in I can now see things (with my new left eye) which have been invisible for years. How I look forward to being able to walk in humid rainy conditions without my glasses fogging up so that I am (was) walking blind.
17/02/2023: I have to agree with Michael de Percy, they need to open a ‘philosophy factory down the road’ or as Heraclitus put it, ‘It is weariness upon the same things to labor and by them to be controlled.’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/02/on-labors-heraclitus-the-fragments-of-socialism/
17/02/2023: The BOM has been faking the temperature data for decades to hype their ‘global warming’ fantasy: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/02/15/hyping-maximum-temperatures-part-6/
15/02/2023: You heard how around half the current ‘aborigines’ who demand a ‘voice’ (aka control of our country) are recent fakes? The other half are mostly simply older fakes, the likes of Michael Mansell etc whose 1/32nd ‘heritage’ is almost certainly less than yours or mine. ‘One continent, one nation’ was what our founders in 1901 had in mind, a good enough notion for the next couple of hundred years too: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/30509/300000-fake-aboriginies-rorting-exorbitant-black-privillage/
15/02/2023: You heard too that it was the ‘
15/02/2023: Long since time everyone gave up on this ‘climate’ nonsense and went back to enjoying life: https://issuesinsights.com/2023/02/14/the-climate-scare-narrative-continues-to-collapse/
15/02/2023: It had to happen, but you go first: https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/02/yale-professor-mandatory-mass-suicide-of-elderly-a-solution-to-japans-rapidly-aging-society/
30/01/2023: What kind of pill should you take – I choose the white pill: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/29/take-the-white-pill/
30/01/2023: NASA has reignited its nuclear propulsion rocket system it cancelled with Omega decades ago: https://www.sciencealert.com/new-nasa-nuclear-rocket-plan-aims-to-get-to-mars-in-just-45-days?fbclid=IwAR3slVtRk0ONpaShEauzboR__ZxtL-dMyuwTYDnSkPpWuIxm4BUuTW9r0sg
30/01/2023: Will the public ever see a ‘No’ case? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/voice-referendum-doomed/
30/01/2023: Eagles are probably incapable of learning to avoid wind turbines: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/28/guardian-google-are-not-trying-hard-enough-to-censor-climate-deniers/
29/01/2023: Interesting New Windscreen: A reader drew my attention to this interesting piece of parallel evolution. The X-Boil is a roll-up windscreen very similar to my roll-up titanium stove which I posted about here a year earlier than the X-Boil. I made later modifications to it in pots here and here, though until last week when Craig alerted me to it I had never heard of X-Boil. I have copied the photo of it from their site - I hope they don't mind - I don't speak (or write) German.
It has an interesting button-loop closure which is another solution to the hook and eye type ‘chimney’ closure I finally settled on. I think the latter has perhaps slightly less ‘give’ in it which may be preferable in the field.
X-Boil has come up with some added ventilation options (which Craig seems to think mine needs), though I have not as yet found this myself. I have to congratulate X-Boil on the modification to the upper edge which allows for the use of a frypan. This is an outstanding idea. As a keen Ultralight Fisherman I wholly endorse this change and will incorporate it in my next model. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/01/28/interesting-new-windscreen/
29/01/2023: Lunch Atop A Skyscraper: The Story Behind The 1932 Photo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QCYDzsQ_yM
29/01/2023: How well do these Nato tanks measure up – and will they need to send nukes next? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11674247/M1-Abrams-tank-vs-Leopard-2-Challenger-2-differences.html
29/01/2023: It had to happen:
28/01/2023: Garden Doings: (Della) We often see satin bowerbirds in the garden at fruit-ripening time, but yesterday gave us a special treat: I discovered a hesitant fledgling bowerbird that had been separated from his frantic mother by a flock of noisy cockatoos wheeling overhead. Mum was flying about and calling from a nearby tree, and you can see her join her baby in the video before being frightened off again by a lone cocky. Eventually (after I had retreated with my camera) they were able to find enough peace to reunite and fly to safety together. Welcome to our newest eater of the windfall apples and other fruity delicacies from our garden. The other random pic is one of my giant birds of paradise trees that I caught flowering spectacularly whilst I still had camera in hand.
28/01/2023: So much can still be learned from ancient thinkers such as Epicurus and Buddha: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/jan/26/living-for-pleasure-by-emily-a-austin-an-epicurean-guide-to-happiness
28/01/2023: The Left and their ‘trigger warnings’ meet Shakespeare and Beowulf – It could get ugly: https://jonathanturley.org/2023/01/26/tragedy-might-be-triggering-british-universities-add-warnings-for-greek-and-shakespearean-plays/
28/01/2023: Who knows whether this Project Veritas story is true or not; we may never know. I certainly believe that the power of evil is immense and that the forces of good have always fought a rearguard action against it. In this instance I long ago observed that Pfizer had undoubtedly suborned a myriad of ‘important’ folk (politicians, health bureaucrats etc) with cash payments in order to further their profits – indeed long before they discovered the awesome cash potential of the coronavirus: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/blockbuster-claims-in-video-of-pfizer-executive-making-mutant-viruses-capturing-official-agencies/
28/01/2023: It isn’t the Virgin Mary or Jesus but it certainly looks like a bear: https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-just-discovered-a-bear-on-mars
27/01/2023: The
“There’s many a coat that is tattered and torn,
That beneath lies a true honest heart.
But because he’s not dressed like his neighbors in style,
Society keeps them apart.
For on one fortune smiles, while the other one fails,
Yes, no matter what venture he tries.
Time calls them both to the grave in the end,
And six feet of earth makes us all one size.”
27/01/2023: If someone else was massacring whales, birds and bats as the Greens are, you would expect someone to get upset – at least the Greens would get upset, surely? https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/the-strange-coincidence-of-the-offshore-wind-industry-and-178-dead-whales/
27/01/2023: Heart attacks up 17%, but who cares? https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/fatal-heart-attacks-up-17-percent-in-australia/ This will bankrupt Pfizer: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/breaking-the-silence-do-mrna-vaccine-harms-outweigh-benefits/
27/01/2023: All along our coastline you can see this same
evidence that sea level has actually fallen – just open your eyes. Then maybe
you will begin to doubt the global warming doomsters. Sea level has (naturally)
been falling since the Holocene (maximum 6-8000 years ago) the warmest period
between the great ice ages when the earth was at its warmest. Since then we
have been slowly moving back into another ice age. Don’t expect to be able to
walk to
26/01/2023: On this day in 1778 Della's great great great
grandfather Private Lawrence Richards Plymouth Marines on board Prince of Wales
arrived Sydney Cove with his wife Mary and son Samuel
(born on the voyage thus maybe the first Australian). They were the first
settlers on Norfolk Island and later had land at
26/01/2023: I have always loved butter, cream etc. Now I know for sure it was good for me too: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2018/07/cheese-butter-not-necessarily-linked-to-death/565253/
26/01/2023: Forget about the lithium and cobalt shortage; there is just not enough plain old copper in the ground for the ‘net zero revolution’. It is madness to mandate the impossible as Canute demonstrated: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/24/the-copper-conundrum/
26/01/2023: Maybe you can remember when Jacinta Price warned that dropping the welfare cash card controls would lead to a spike in alcohol fueled violence (especially against women) in remote communities. Then Albanese and his mates decided to end alcohol bans as well – because they were ‘racist’, even though the victimized women wanted them. Now without recourse to a ‘Voice’ at all, he has re-introduced them. What’s next? Another Howard style military intervention at hell-holes like Wadeye which is doubtless just as bad (if not worse) than it was back then? https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/albos-alice-alcohol-back-flip/
26/01/2023: There is a point where I cease to be a libertarian and echo those who would see the death penalty for child molesters. I think I now want to include fantasy child molesters in this too: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/truecrimeaustralia/predatory/instagram-slammed-for-letting-child-sex-dolls-to-be-sold-online-as-border-force-seizes-illegal-trade/news-story/cbedb136cae4afbd23cdc284a8d8ed77
25/01/2023: How good are ‘scientific trials’? This (satirical) paper shows that there is no evidence that parachutes help: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/03/rct-study-shows-parachutes-make-no-difference-when-jumping-from-aircraft/
25/01/2023: Could ultrasound be the fountain of youth – it had better hurry up for me if it is: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fstudyfinds.org%2Fsound-waves-reversing-aging%2F
Another one here – will we live forever: https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://studyfinds.org/anti-aging-gene-fountain-of-youth/
25/01/2023: The Land Rover Defender replacement is just about to hit the market: https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/spy-pics-ineos-grenadier-ute-breaks-cover-139231/?fbclid=IwAR3WPg7Qsb8DZVICQPUANvp7iPUXtnTXm9hZSyntvc8FYwzMJ65-k07iz1M
25/01/2023: You have to honour the spirit of sacrifice:
24/01/2023: A solar powered lighter – an expensive way to make your BIC renewable: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solis-x-world-s-first-solar-rechargeable-lighter#/
24/01/2023: Let them eat bugs: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/01/let-them-eat-bugs.php But there already is a food production ‘crisis’: https://richardsonpost.com/michael-snyder/30286/the-worst-food-crisis-in-modern-history/
24/01/2023: Of course our climate thermometers are always perfectly sited (as they are supposed to be) with only (mown grass) within 50 metres or so of them - and there is no urban heat island effect by the growth of a huge city all around them: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/01/urbanization-effects-on-ghcn-temperature-trends-part-i-the-urbanization-characteristics-of-the-ghcn-stations/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/jolly-odd-what-sydney-observatory-record-cold-spell-broken-with-help-from-awol-solar-panel/
24/01/2023: You and I who have lived in the bush all our lives (and love it) would call it ‘alienation’: https://scitechdaily.com/natures-decline-the-distance-between-humans-and-nature-is-growing/
23/01/2023: So, birds were around before the dinosaurs vanished: https://scitechdaily.com/evolving-backward-discovery-overturns-more-than-a-century-of-knowledge-about-the-origin-of-modern-birds/
23/01/2023:
23/01/2023: Yeah, sure. The boys will love their new quiet choppers – and buy them like crazy: https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/harley-davidson-will-soon-be-all-electric-ceo-says/ar-AA16zEgK?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=edb475dccdbf485bb961be3fe042063c
23/01/2023: 15 Reasons Completely Unrelated To The Vaccine People Are Dying Suddenly: https://babylonbee.com/news/15-reasons-completely-unrelated-to-the-vaccine-people-are-dying-suddenly
22/01/2023: Buzz still has the right stuff: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/special-punch-in-honor-of-buzz-aldrins-93rd-birthday/ & https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/famous-astronaut-marries-93-excited-eloping-teenagers/
22/01/2023: Norwegian government funds research to find out if white paint is racist: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Ftpn.net%2Fnorwegian-government-funds-research-to-find-out-if-white-paint-isracist%2F
22/01/2023: Rats had a bad press: https://www.sciencealert.com/we-might-have-been-wrong-about-the-role-rats-played-in-the-black-death
22/01/2023: Duh: “When you start to think about it, it’s pretty extraordinary that we – a select group of human beings, because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives – are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet…It’s so… almost extra-terrestrial to think about, saving the planet. If you say that to most people most people, they think you’re just a crazy tree hugging and lefty liberal, you know, do-gooder, whatever.” John Kerry at Davos
21/01/2023: ‘Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.’ Alex Levine
21/01/2023: Graphene Fabrics on the way: https://backpackinglight.com/forums/topic/graphene-embedded-polymers/
21/01/2023: This will work out well: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/it-takes-5-days-to-charge-a-hummer-ev/
21/01/2023: Let them not eat cake: https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/british-food-tsar-hints-cake-ban-office-compares-health-harms-passive-smoking
20/01/2023: Leeks were eaten in ancient
20/01/2023: Anti-aging is on the way, but hurry up guys: https://www.science.org/content/article/two-research-teams-reverse-signs-aging-mice
20/01/2023: These ‘elites’ are just barking mad: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/its-a-cult-the-wef-are-the-select-few-touched-as-saviors-of-the-world-to-master-the-future/
20/01/2023: Viagra anyone? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11649627/Viagra-users-25-likely-suffer-early-death.html
19/01/2023: “Your husband is a polar bear, skinny.”: https://apnews.com/article/fema-alaskan-native-wrong-translations-707ab611f0d171ae2e34fc3f284454a7
19/01/2023: Wonnangatta Again: After three days of (once
again poorly reported) ‘evidence’ I think we can begin to piece together the
solution to this ‘mystery’: Russell had visited the area a week before (if you
remember). Almost certainly this was to choose a campsite and quite probably to
get in a good supply of firewood. At ‘normal’ times when there are few folks
about this might have worked out, but not a week before a holiday long weekend.
On this occasion when he arrived there were (presumably) already two cars
camped at ‘his’ site, one of them Lynn, the other the man in the white ute whom we have not heard from yet – presumably he did not
have a phone! A lesson there for future ‘murderers’!
It will be interesting to learn when/why he left. Witnesses have described Hill
as a ‘grumpy old man’ and we have heard before about his becoming involved in
an altercation with the ‘Button Man’ when he also decided to camp at (or too
close to) the latter’s campsite. I’m sure we have all encountered people like
that, unfortunately. The witnesses also expressed surprise that Russell
‘decided’ to camp right next to the other two campers (when there are around
forty kilometers of river to camp along for less than 200 people even on a
holiday weekend). It seems likely that the situation was inflamed further by
Hill flying his drone over
19/01/2023: Maybe you voted to make this possible? I did not: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/update-gruesome-details-released-gay-activist-couples-crimes-adopted-sons-warning-content/
19/01/2023: ‘Racial’ classification is just nuts, whether it
is the
18/01/2023: SpaceX is just great: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/spacex-launch-is-awesome-and-thats-how-we-will-land-on-mars/
18/01/2023: Wonnangatta Murders: Goodness knows how this
will work out, but by the third day police seem to have one clear piece of
evidence which will damn
One would think that the phone would have been switched off, yet nonetheless ‘modern’ ‘fixed battery’ phones now have a supplementary battery which keeps time/geolocation alive even so. Edward Snowden alerted us to the ‘spooks’s ability to track this (after the event) even if no search warrant had been issued (before the event) – and it appears he is right. Future crims will be alerted to this if they had not been by 1990s Bruce Willis movies! Astonishing that an airline pilot (who should have known better) carried these phones so far. My own ‘guess’ was that the murderer would have disposed of the bodies and such evidence as soon as possible (before reaching ‘populated’ areas) – but not this guy apparently.
The first day of ‘evidence’ was weird – and made no sense.
‘Witnesses’ gave ‘evidence’ of events completely contrary to the ‘known’
movements of the couple from nearly two years ago now, ie that they called
their friend around 3:00 pm on the Friday afternoon 20th March from the Howitt Road outside the
valley (for directions) then drove into the Wonnangatta (Dry Creek) and called
him again at 6:00pm 20th March saying he had just arrived at camp in the
Valley. The previous night (Thursday 19th March) they had (‘always’) spent on
the Howitt Plains outside the valley – the haunt of the so-called ‘Button Man’
– if you recall all previous reports of their movements. One wonders why police
had interviewed that individual if phone records (pings from the
Still, further police evidence yesterday (presumably
geolocation from
18/01/2023: Our masters need their mistresses who can be flown in by jet plane (all at the public expense – what a trough!) whilst we peddle bicycles and eat bugs: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/report-high-priced-prostitutes-descend-davos-high-powered-leaders-world-economic-forum/
18/01/2023: The Albanese communist government’s ‘reforms’ of the gas industry are not working out well –if you try to control prices you curtail supply: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/the-government-waved-a-magic-wand-and-turned-the-gas-industry-into-a-stone/
17/01/2023: Nuclear power in your pocket? ‘Soon’ to come for future ultralight hikers: https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2023/01/nuclear-power-cell-for-space-satellites-that-are-cup-size-instead-of-dishwasher-size.html
17/01/2023: The Shed: If only all of us could triumph over the ‘planners’ as this old man did: https://www.spectator.com.au/2023/01/the-old-mans-tale/
17/01/2023: Remember when electricity cost <$30/meg and we had a reliable supply: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/12/south-australia-does-it-again/
17/01/2023: Excess deaths likely caused by MRNA vaccines: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/temporary-morgues-built-across-uk-due-unprecedented-increase-excess-deaths/
16/01/2023: DIY Shoulder Pouches: My new Zpacks Arc Haul Ultra came without shoulder pockets (or pouches) as I could so easily make my own, as I have done this morning (forgetting to photograph the process too sorry!) If you have ‘recently) purchased a sewing machine as I have (often) suggested, you can make a pair too. I hope this post helps you do so.
I measured the space on the pack where they would have to fit and came up with dimensions of my four pieces of material as follows. Two pieces for the pack strap sleeves that started at 7″ x 6″ and two pieces for the pouches that stated at 6″ x 15″. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2023/01/15/diy-shoulder-pouches/
16/01/2023: Ibn Battutah, The Islamic Marco Polo. “Whereas Marco Polo was rather tight-lipped about sex, Ibn Battutah seems to have copulated his way across the then-known world with hundreds of slave girls, concubines, and temporary “wives.” He also left more than a few offspring in his wake. His trip lasted 29 years and was three times the length of Marco Polo’s. He writes about not only what he actually experienced, but also includes gossip, rumors, and legends about the things and the people he encountered. Some of it is rather horrifying.”: https://www.amazon.com/Travels-Battutah-Macmillan-Collectors-Library/dp/1909621471/ref=asc_df_1909621471/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312021455910&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3526682798586221892&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9003435&hvtargid=pla-489921632055&psc=1
16/01/2023: In case you don’t think the transgender cult has gone too far: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/frankenstein-.html
16/01/2023: Frankly I think gas stoves were just about the best kitchen ‘invention’. We would not be without ours: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/14/calls-to-ban-gas-stoves-are-anti-science-anti-freedom-and-anti-energy/
16/01/2023: Electric cars are not working out well for the
15/01/2023: Finnsheep - Unexpected second lambing. This fourteen year old ewe has lambed unexpectedly for the second time this year. I hardly expected her to live (She had been quite ill after her first lambing back in August), let alone do this. She has been a spectacular ewe with four working teats who has often raised quads (when she was younger).
She and another brilliant old ewe have been in a small ‘retirement’ paddock just in case they happened to raise a bonus lamb (in 2023) after a long and productive life (around forty lambs raised each - in paddock conditions).
I have had a very special young triplet ram in with them just so he doesn’t get hurt by the other rams as he has outstanding genetics and we really want progeny from him (later this year).
I was very surprised to see her with this (second, unplanned) out-of-season lamb at foot this morning. It is only one but it is a four-teated ewe lamb - so somewhat like winning the lottery for us.
The proud dad:
Here she is with a set of quads last year.
Finnsheep can relatively easily be managed to lamb twice per
year. We have clients with thousands of our Finnsheep in air-conditioned sheds
eg in the
We do not usually lamb ours the second time because there is not enough stock feed here in summer to raise a second lambing well so it is too hard on the ewe and the lambs.
15/01/2023: “I do not own a coal mine. I am a professor of literature at an American college. We professors, like the mine owners, do not do hard manual labour for a living. Unlike those mine owners, if I may speak generally, we spend none of our time around such men. We do not break bread with them, we do not live near them, we do not worship at the same church, our children do not see one another on the streets. We are almost entirely insulated from the exigencies of bodily life. We do not grow our own fruit and vegetables, we do not build our own homes, we do not raise our own livestock, we do not dig our own wells, we do not repair our own vehicles, we do not clear our own fields, we do not pave our own driveways and roads, we do not lay the bricks for our own schools, we do not fight our own fights.” Anthony Esolen, reflecting on John Ford’s great movie, ‘How Green was My Valley’ (& who also does not know what a semi-colon is). Far too many like him – and yet unlike, for most show no remorse and are ever assured of their own superiority! God save us from the ‘elites’: http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/2014/01/theres-equality-theres-equality/
15/01/2023: The nation state is increasingly a prison and
moreso a ‘panopticon’ one where we should certainly believe ‘we are being
watched’, as we
have no control over ubiquitous cameras and microphones which (are intended to)
surveil us and control us. The prospects for ‘liberty’ are dismal. It is still
(though barely) within living memory that the passport was invented (an
‘emergency World War 1 measure – like the income tax – Yes!) it is not just our
movement across (so-called) international borders which is circumscribed but
increasingly our movement within our own areas and nations. The so-called covid
‘pandemic’ was either invented for the purpose or eagerly morphed into a
vehicle for such social control. Who could have believed before then that
(‘free’) Australians could be limited to their own homes or a very restricted
neighbourhood – and all their other (social) activities likewise entombed in
red-tape, even our ‘rights’ to work and worship, for example. There was very
little ‘push-back’ against this – though you may have noticed (for example)
Della and I continuing to ‘sneak out’ now and then for a camping trip in the
Vic mountains (& etc) in defiance of ‘Dictator Dan’s’ edicts, though we
were (from the outset) more careful than most to avoid infection – just common
sense really. (And may I add, better prepared to treat it than any Oz
government). We have (at least) three tiers of ‘Government’ in
14/01/2023: The last free people…I was wondering around
3:00am what has become of them. Do any exist in the brave new world order which
has been building its walls and stringent controls all around us. You know, people like the Lapps and Samoyeds – the
reindeer people, and the various gypsy tribes for example. What an astonishing
achievement by the former. Imagine domesticating reindeer which can live where
there is only (inedible) moss to eat, and yet move about with them and thrive
in the most inhospitable of wildernesses- and sustain a lively culture. The
closing of the Soviet borders must have had a profound effect on them. When we
were in
14/01/2023: Surviving the Holocaust but not our Brave New World (Order): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/holocaust-survivor-hiding-ordered-psychiatric-institution-german-court-faces-forced-covid-vaccine/
14/01/2023: Let’s see the Greens get behind this one: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Holtec-claims-SMR-160-can-repurpose-any-coal-fired?fbclid=IwAR0b0sVTcF6VChSoXpsPcrlhKQqfaIScHKq1THqyMiQovafVtEPpJGQm02A
14/01/2023: Antarctic icebergs have not changed in 300 years; so much for catastrophic global warming: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/2000-gigatons-of-plant-wrecking-co2-and-icebergs-around-antarctica-are-the-same-as-the-1700s/
13/01/2023: Why ‘Adam’s Ale’ is the best drink: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/02/health/hydration-disease-aging-death-risk-study-wellness/index.html
13/01/2023: Much as they tout ‘diversity’ the elites in fact favor only conformity, so innovation is stifled: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/its-official-everywhere-in-science-theres-a-mysterious-lack-of-ground-breaking-papers/
13/01/2023: Big Brother is watching you: A friend points out that WA are trying to introduce legislation that will consider anyone that is working from home will have their home deemed a workplace, which will then fall under the same state workplace OH & S and right of access by government department and union officials.
13/01/2023: War of the Worlds #1 – Are we Martians then? https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-mars-may-have-had-the-conditions-for-life-before-earth/
12/01/2023: Don’t miss the rare green comet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9DTkxXoQqw
12/01/2023: When Labour’s William Beveridge ‘invented’ ‘The Welfare State’ in 1942 ‘his goal was ‘the abolition of want’. Labor has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams: Want has all but been abolished: fewer and fewer want to work, want to marry, want to raise children, want to lead a life of any purpose or dignity’ (Steyn) ‘The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly,’ Thomas Sowell.
12/01/2023: Where are the greens when you pave over 5,000 square kilometers with solar panels or clear the forest and halt the wind with so many wind turbines – not to mention the god-alone-knows what effects of all the monstrous transmission cables: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/big-solar-goes-big-bust-largest-solar-plant-in-the-world-dies-before-it-can-be-built/
12/01/2023: I notice that the radical left
have been eager to celebrate the death of George Pell – a death no doubt
hastened by their vitriolc witch hunt of a demonstrably innocent man. Instead,
we should be celebrating the life of one of
11/01/2023: "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing poorly." G.K. Chesterton
11/01/2023: Really, what’s wrong with being a man, manly
even? I’m sure the women and children of the
11/01/2023: Beware of pollies trying to sell pigs in pokes: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/therapeutic-albanese-couldnt-be-clearer-about-the-voice-vote-first-find-out-what-for-later.html BTW: A ‘poke’ (bag) is a cognate of ‘pocket’.
11/01/2023: The poor old elephant – who could have known: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/huge-elephant-dies-suddenly-we-dont-know-why-but-we-know-it-wasnt-that-one-thing/
10/01/2023: When even the Labor right (does it still have one?) become worried about Defence you should too: https://spectator.com.au/2023/01/bombers-defence/
10/01/2023: How mandated car seats actually ‘kill’ children. These things and other such social programmes are really depopulation strategies. We have entered an era when only junk people can ‘afford’ to have children. This will not end well: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665046
09/01/2023: The world’s first analogue computer from the
genius which was ancient
09/01/2023: Common sense on tax and money from the great Ronald Reagan: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/homespun-genius-from-the-late-great-ronald-reagan.html
09/01/2023: Della and I have been ‘green’ all along without even knowing it: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/08/new-york-times-there-has-never-been-a-better-time-to-be-short-mate-with-shorter-people-for-a-greener-planet-to-save-the/
09/01/2023: What an interesting idea: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/481990/londoner-solves-20-000-year-ice-age-drawings-mystery?fbclid=IwAR1E84dEqLFCa3nz1NlFzuTxcYkZcYeIhFyV5rnPfnZUMQzNS49-bbdo0FU
08/01/2023: How materials technology will change the world: https://bigthink.com/the-future/cellulose-nanocrystals/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2oBmFknKXHLzGkEJmbCW1mkhuM443bljYUhdo9gCCsXAxkSg5qKeJVu4I#Echobox=1673049074
08/01/2023: The art of ancient Roman concrete: https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-how-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable?fbclid=IwAR3bjxGoeiGbiZ50ukBD3K4-1VizdPsxuM-b5jIjaDS24Alpyh1QsKDrPVw
08/01/2023: In 1800 there were 3 cities in the world with populations over 1 million. Now there are 442! This represents the major transformation of human life. We cannot hope to understand what makes the average human tick unless we understand their circumstances. Having lived in a city (reluctantly) for less than 8% of my life I admit to a deep ignorance. I pretty much hardly even know any 'city people'.
08/01/2023: When they are not killing birds and bats and producing no net electricity, they burn: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/01/smoking-ceremony-at-the-local-wind-farm.html
07/01/2023: Get ready: 6G is coming (for you): https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/01/230104231812.htm
07/01/2023: Once again zinc (50 mg a day in this case) is shown to be a ‘magic bullet’: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/if-only-our-universities-had-studied-this-earlier-zinc-may-have-stopped-40-of-covid-deaths/
07/01/2023: The Chinese Government seem to be rushing a range of science fiction scenarios: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/sellin-chinas-reseach-mosquitos-may-lead-using-mosquitos-bioweapon-delivery-platform/
07/01/2023: According to the satellite records the world is .05 of a degree warmer than the average for the last 44 years. It has varied by around half a degree up/down all that time. This is a dazzling unifomity. Who can really doubt that there is a natural thermostat which keep the temperature so stable? You would have to be a lunatic to believe that profound ‘climate change’ is imminent. The whole movement is just a wicked scam: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/01/uah-global-temperature-update-2022-was-the-7th-warmest-of-44-year-satellite-record/
06/01/2023: More details of the fate of the
06/01/2023: Parsnips (and turnips) are very nutritious and delicious – what people ate before potatoes took over: https://insanelygoodrecipes.com/parsnip-recipes/
06/01/2023: Repatriating those
06/01/2023: If
Where is that warming: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/04/the-new-pause-lengthens-100-months-with-no-warming-at-all/
05/01/2023: ‘It is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil’: I’m sure you would not expect that quote from me an old avowed atheist, but one should always garner truth and wisdom from the past, not just throw it all away as so much old junk. Our Judaeo-Christian tradition has many such important lessons which it would be folly to forget. The pleasure to be found in physical work ought not be missed by anyone. It pains me how many folk are bored and indolent, whereas we never find a minute where we share that feeling. All our moments are busy ones.
This is probably my favourite Bible quote. If you are my age you may remember it better as being the words of a ‘Peter, Paul & Mary’ song! Read it in full, maybe even paste it on your wall. It is full of wonderful truths: Ecclesiastes 3:1-13:
3:1 ‘For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
3:2 a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
3:3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
3:4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
3:5 a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
3:6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to throw away;
3:7 a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
3:8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
3:9 What gain have the workers from their toil?
3:10 I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy with.
3:11 He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
3:12 I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
3:13 moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take pleasure in all their toil.’
05/01/2023: With maybe 20 million covid infections in a
single city
05/01/2023: “If, a militarised, heavily armed Police force decides that it can take the law into its own hands, a great leap forward has been achieved in the progressive totalitarianism to which we are being subjected”. He argues the Qld police unit SERT had the capability to and was set up to arrest and detain just such armed ‘offenders’ as the Trains. Why then are they dead instead of facing trial so that we know the nature of their ‘crimes’? Trial by media is not the semantic equivalent of justice. https://newcatallaxy.blog/2023/01/04/what-happens-in-wieambilla-stays-in-wieambilla/ PS: Comments are interesting.
05/01/2023: Batteryland – another fantasy green dream like green hydrogen and renewables generally. Extracting sunbeams from cucumbers as Gulliver observed the crazed inhabitants of one of Swift’s fantasy lands attempting to do is just not a sensible energy or economic policy. You just can’t ‘plan’ to spend eight times the entire GDP on a battery which could never (materially) be built anyway, and likely would not work if you did. : https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/even-in-battery-fantasy-dreams-the-costs-dont-make-sense/
04/01/2023: 1912 – what was the world like exactly 100 years ago? http://www.danielgreenfield.org/2022/12/december-31-1912.html
04/01/2023: Add this to the ‘smart switch on your electricity meter. Too many nasty things can be done to your freedom with the flick of a switch: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/01/big-brother-will-watch-drive-disgusting-infrastructure-bill-installs-kill-switches-new-vehicles-turns-america-police-state/
04/01/2023: Some more good news (maybe) – extinction rebellion quits: https://joannenova.com.au/2023/01/extinction-rebellion-quits-realizes-being-attention-seeking-vandals-isnt-winning/
04/01/2023: Home energy savings largely a sham. I would have thought so too as people build ever larger MacMansions and architects go for two-storey high rooms, oceans of glass and the like. The average weatherboard, timber floored home of the 1950s (which had proper ventilation for human health amongst other advantages - no strange ‘peanut’ allergies and the like back then) was half the size, and had ‘living’ rooms of approx 10-15 square metres (easy to heat) and no cooling of any sort, clearly used less than half the electricity of the ‘modern’ monstrosities. Goodness knows how we even survived the houses we built in the past! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/01/01/home-insulation-makes-little-difference-to-energy-consumption-new-study/
03/01/2023: Love conquers all – a good news story: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64125531
03/01/2023: A plant which gave up photosynthesis: https://www.sciencealert.com/ethereal-new-plant-species-doesnt-use-photosynthesis-its-found-something-sneakier
03/01/2023: The mother of ‘conspiracy theories’ debunked: https://spectator.com.au/2023/01/lee-harvey-oswald-killed-jfk/
03/01/2023: No doubt all those folk who waited an hour or
two to recharge their EVs over the holiday period will be rushing out to buy
another one and advising their friends to do the same. Likewise the folks in
02/01/2023: Suppose you wanted to ditch Google Play Store: https://www.popsci.com/diy/f-droid-download/
02/01/2023: Just in case you need an ice age, here’s a great idea – and they’re implementing it without any discussion at all: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/go-wrong-startup-releases-particles-atmosphere-stop-climate-change/
02/01/2023: We can apparently look forward to blackouts
which last several days (if we continue to follow
02/01/2023: A great essay Alexandra: https://spectator.com.au/2022/12/the-crimes-of-eco-fascism/
01/01/2023: Zpacks Arc Haul Ultra: I have been a fan of Joe Valesko’s Zpacks for nearly twenty years – back when he was just a lad sewing all the packs himself. We have kept in touch. I have tried many of his products as they became available and generally promoted them.
I doubt there has been any single person who has ‘pushed the envelope’ of the ultralight revolution quite as much as Joe. His firm has grown like topsy, which is a credit to him and I hope doesn’t give him too much stress with the responsibility of having to care for so many people and do so much work. I trust there is still plenty of time for family and for hiking.
I have a friend whose business grew so big he eventually had to sell it as it was making his life impossible. All he really wanted was to be like Maugham’s ‘The Verger’ – to have a very modest living. If you haven’t read the story, now is the time to do so. If you don’t read, you can watch it here. I’m afraid such modest ambitions are what I have stuck with since I first read the story in the sixth grade. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/12/31/zpacks-arc-haul-ultra/
01/01/2023: Instead of queueing from 10:00am to watch
‘pretty lights’ in the sky at midnight before going home to bed I’m afraid we
went to bed at 10:00 pm and missed New Year altogether, our 52nd together
actually. I really can’t believe that half a billion people ‘tuned in’ to watch
the
01/01/2023: A very powerful and insightful essay - Use These Five Easy Tricks to Identify the Marxist in the Room: https://pjmedia.com/columns/kevindowneyjr/2022/12/30/use-these-five-easy-tricks-to-identify-the-marxist-in-the-room-n1657219
01/01/2023: It is horrifying that children could be legally mutilated (castrated) by one parent against the wishes of the other and really without the child’s consent (being a minor). Women’s ‘rights’ have gone too far. It is hard to imagine the effect on this boy’s life when he grows to be an adult and realizes what was done to him – and what he lost: https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-texas-supreme-court-rules-against-father-seeking-to-prevent-chemical-castration-of-his-son
31/12/2022: Bird-window collisions. I would have expected some more positive recommendations. On old-style windows with fly-screens (in my experience) they almost never happen. The suggestion that feeders should be placed near windows is interesting: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221220113013.htm
31/12/2022: Time to ditch those ‘green’ investments: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/ouch-environmental-investors-lost-22-in-a-year-when-energy-investors-made-54-gains/
31/12/2022: It is fairly clear that the MRNA shots are not working but I would like more information about the efficacy of the conventional vaccines. I am seriously considering a booster of Novavax which seems particularly efficacious. I still have no particular desire to die from covid (if it can be prevented) though I never wanted the public to waste vast amounts of money preventing my death either (as they did). Cheap vaccination campaigns have been the backbone of cost-effective public health for a century now. It still seems (to me) that Ivermectin is more effective as an antiviral treatment than the expensive ones the drug companies have cooked up. Still plenty of sheep drench in our cupboard: https://www.conservativereview.com/horowitz-possibly-the-most-important-study-on-covid-shots-might-explain-why-covid-never-seems-to-end-2659039644.html
31/12/2022: The Faux Urgency of The Climate Crisis Is Giving Us No Time or Space To Build A Secure Energy Future. Some advice from one of the world’s pre-eminent climate scientists: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/28/the-faux-urgency-of-the-climate-crisis-is-giving-us-no-time-or-space-to-build-a-secure-energy-future/
30/12/2022: The long (geological) view of climate change: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/blame-jacinta/
30/12/2022: Worrying. Any excuse to increase the tyranny we now live under: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/tyranny-aussie-cops-demand-public-rat-neighbors-anti-government-believe-covid-19-conspiracy-theories/
Qld Police have also clearly been peddling a pack of lies about the Trains (who I admit might not have been exactly angels – who is?) For example the ‘new’ excuse for the police break in was that they were serving a warrant for ‘illegal guns’ but the only such (unsecured firearm) ‘offence’ seems to have been 25 years ago. As I said at the time, we may never know what this was all about, just that it is clearly not as it seems: https://richardsonpost.com/davidhiscox/29946/dob-in-a-covid-denier/
30/12/2022: The ‘
30/12/2022: German health minister says climate change travel restrictions and prohibited behaviour will be required: https://twitter.com/BernieSpofforth/status/1605820678585958401?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1605820678585958401%7Ctwgr%5E00bb104ca66591f801b94ba6d508d53ae91796d9%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcitizenfreepress.com%2Fbreaking%2Feco-dictatorship-coming-your-way%2F
Why not bathe once a week instead? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/28/germanys-zdf-public-television-suggests-bathing-once-a-week-would-be-beneficial/
29/12/2022: Life will find a way: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/bin-chickens-chow-down-on-cane-toads/
29/12/2022: The Nord Stream mystery: https://dnyuz.com/2022/12/26/in-nord-stream-mystery-baltic-seabed-provides-a-nearly-ideal-crime-scene/
29/12/2022: When the police are useless (What else?) Well done girls: https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/mothers-intuition-how-2-indiana-moms-capture-suspect-rescue-missing-ohio-baby-kason-thomas
29/12/2022: Interesting: Men are no longer going to Uni – I suspect they are getting real jobs with real pay. Remember how they (similarly) quit being teachers a decade or two ago - and schools declined horribly? I bet they are all ‘hiding out’ in the private sector on better wages: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/victor-davis-hanson-asks-are-universities-doomed/
27/12/2022: Will ChatGPT replace you? It will certainly write your Uni/school essays anyway and may (I hope) mean that written exams become once again compulsory. I am tired of visiting a doctor (for example) who clearly isn’t, but whose exams were obviously all done by someone else. I at least can still tell the difference, but some of these AIs are becoming devilishly clever: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/chatgpt-has-artificial-intelligence-arrived-will-it-crush-google-or-just-become-google-2-0/
27/12/2022: So many Christian mysteries - not least Jesus’s brothers and sisters: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/brother-where-art-thou/
27/12/2022: Strange how minds work. I too have always been dubious about the ubiquity of evil, but it led me to question the existence of God rather than move towards him: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/rush-limbaughs-brother-reveals-key-reality-led-skepticism-christian-faith/
27/12/2022: Before they began their wonderful ‘experiment
with democracy’ under the communist terrorist Mandela South
What an awful place it has become: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/holiday-hope-message-south-african-farm-attack-survivor-mariandra/
26/12/2022: Just worrying whether this is true: https://scitechdaily.com/common-sweetener-linked-with-anxiety-in-startling-new-research/
26/12/2022: The good news is that the world is not ending: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/22/the-world-is-not-ending-bjorn-lomborg-and-jordan-peterson/
26/12/2022: Is Santa Claus a communist? https://www.spectator.com.au/2019/12/10630768/
26/12/2022: Anyway, Peace on Earth: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/bing-crosby-and-david-bowie-sing-peace-on-earth/
25/12/2022: Ants for Xmas: Della: “So while everyone else is enjoying Christmas Eve, I have been enjoying a novel experiment. In preparation for our family Christmas celebration on Boxing Day I figured that people might not notice the rampant weed growth in my garden if I strategically pulled out the very biggest of the weeds. After only the first barrow-load I discovered this humongous bull-ant nest where I am sure none existed last autumn (For reference, the ant in the picture is on a flag-iris leaf).
I immediately Googled bull-ant nest eradication, and was fascinated to read that ants will not cross a chalk line drawn on a pavement as it interferes with their pheromones.
Ever the scientist, Steve immediately went out to the verandah, grabbed the kids’ playground chalk and drew a firm line in the middle of a sugar-ant trail. Amazingly, the ants immediately baulked at the line, turning around and running back the other way. Sadly the effect only lasted about 3 minutes: When Steve drew a further line that prevented entry to their nest, they baulked initially and then pushed on through.
Now I know that drinking a glass of prosecco is more fun than watching ants on Christmas Eve, but believe me, you can do both! Meanwhile, if you have any worthwhile tips on how to kill my unwelcome monster ants, let me know!
Merry Christmas everyone.”
Just a BTW: A single application of Brunnings Wasp & Ant Dust containing 10g/kg Permethrin made them disappear overnight! (likewise Jumping Jacks).
25/12/2022: Oh No: https://babylonbee.com/news/santas-sleigh-mistakenly-shot-down-by-ukrainian-missile
25/12/2022: Before you commit to the idea that Christmas is not well, Christian, maybe you should read these: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/24/guest-post-mother-lode-a-pagan-christmas/ & https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/nazis-fought-original-war-christmas-180961513/
25/12/2022: “Experts” Say Not To Joke About Cold Weather And Global Warming: Meanwhile: https://americandigest.org/the-gift-of-the-walmagi/
25/12/2022: The future of human hibernation: https://phys.org/news/2022-12-successful-hypothermia-nonhuman-primate-paves.html
24/12/2022: Is death the end? https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a42216404/is-death-revesible/
24/12/2022: You would have to be a fool to think that the government isn’t always telling lies. Some examples: https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-12-21-you-must-assume-that-all-information-put-out-by-our-government-is-corrupt
24/12/2022: McDonalds opens its first automated restaurant. This (and unemployment) is what you get when you try to control wages (and prices): https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/video-from-first-robot-mcdonalds/
24/12/2022: With 240 people dying per day just now in Oz, maybe a booster dose of Novavax would be a good idea: https://newatlas.com/science/novavax-covid19-vaccine-omicron-booster/
23/12/2022: This can’t be true - surely there is only one movie plot: https://babylonbee.com/news/hallmark-researchers-say-they-are-close-to-developing-a-second-movie-plot
23/12/2022: The last Nazi war criminal to be convicted? https://nypost.com/2022/12/20/nazi-secretary-of-evil-97-convicted-by-german-court/
23/12/2022: If we did not have an Elon Musk we would have to invent him – maybe there is hope for free speech yet: https://richardsonpost.com/bruce-thornton/29810/elon-musk-instigating-journalism/
23/12/2022: Meanwhile there are more polar bears than at any time in 60 years: https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-perpetually-endangered-polar-bears-are-doing-great/
21/12/2022: An astonishing underwater megalith teaches us how little really we know about the past: https://tocharus.substack.com/p/stone-megalith-at-the-bottom-of-the
21/12/2022: Osteoarthritis news - I definitely need this (and apparently you can get a script even if you don’t have Diabetes – this stuff also adds years to one’s life expectancy): https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/researchers-call-for-trial-of-metformin-as-potential-treatment-for-osteoarthritis/news-story/f5f22a8625d69d1ac3e5e15cf67fc754
21/12/2022: “It’s just a giant land and power grab by the UN, which has just finished another meeting for “Biodiversity.” Do you remember voting for this ‘world government’? Long since time we stopped handing them money and power, which is all they want after all: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/supercomputer-prophesy-of-the-sixth-mass-extinction-coming-like-an-asteroid-is-a-un-land-grab/
21/12/2022: Destroying capitalism from within: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/13-us-states-warn-that-monster-funds-are-buying-up-public-utilities/
19/12/2022: A Timely Reminder from Neil Oliver about the Importance of Christmas –and its enemies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-axg5CJqQ&t=722s
19/12/2022: Just how secure is our government: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-18/ato-tax-hacked-via-mygov-services-australia-exploit/101781656?fbclid=IwAR30ypKyqQ9E_g70kegnpkQMxYDMkBi8Rx36ATikkohofAUnnnClhDZv_fg
19/12/2022: Remember this (before it is too late): “Those who would give up essential
19/12/2022: Big Brother is alive and well in NZ. If you don’t agree with the government you’re a terrorist: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/new-zealand-guide-turn-potential-terrorists-opposing-government-policies-including-covid-measures/
18/12/2022: The Sheep That Lambs in Litters: This year’s cohort of our amazing Finnsheep are about ready to go to their ‘forever homes’. We were just shearing their dams and sires yesterday and crutching all the lambs, some of whom are waiting their turn here:
They have grown approx 1” of wool per month as you can see. They are (rougly( 4 1/2 months’ old now. They have grown a lot since they first popped out a few months ago:
Pure Finnsheep are the world’s most fertile sheep normally having 3-4 lambs. This fertility is carried on around six genes so that half Finns inherit (roughly) half of it, meaning that you can expect half and even quarter Finns to basically always have twins. They are also (unsually) a medium-fine longwool breed which means that they can also be used to improve the length and quality of your wool.
They were keen to get back into the paddock:
They look so much cleaner after they are shorn:
You can contact us here: http://www.finnsheep.com/ if you are interested in having some for Xmas.
18/12/2022: It really is almost certain that the vaccines caused the cases of myocarditis we have been seeing. I have long since lost hope that our masters will ever apologise for or even acknowledge the wrongs they have done us in the past: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/a-small-smoking-gun-study-shows-covid-vaccination-likely-led-to-fatal-myocarditis/
18/12/2022: Just another move towards a (panopticon) dictatorship: https://spectator.com.au/2022/12/pandoras-box-of-genes-orwells-dna-databases/
18/12/2022: The “
16/12/2022: A ‘Train’ wreck that looks more and more like
I know I was astonished (and alarmed) during the first covid lockdown to have a young man tap on the window not 2’ away from me where I was sitting at my desk after 11:00pm one night. Our house is 100 metres off the road. He had climbed over our locked gate and tiptoed up our drive looking (he said) for a lost puppy! As this was the night after there had been a stolen car doing burn-outs on the road outside (we live on a quiet rural property) and was subsequent to the recent (still unsolved) brutalisation and murder of an elderly farmer locally under similar circumstances, I had every reason to be alarmed. I told him (through the window) that he was lucky I was deaf and had not heard him coming – else he might have well expected to be greeted by a shotgun blast! He was young and stupid and had just not thought (there actually was a puppy, but not at our house) – somewhat like the four (young) policemen in this case, I suspect.
‘Civil liberties’ people also often hold to the centuries-old right to freely own arms for their protection and defence (including against onerous or unjust governments – a significant part of the US constitution after all, and therefore mainstream) which only really began to be circumscribed in Australia in the early C20th – and then in a rush following the Port Arthur ‘incident’ which many people also have doubts about because of serious deficiencies in the official narrative and the fact that a secrecy screen has been placed over it which will not be lifted during any of our lifetimes - which is seriously suspicious surely?
Many of these views were hard-won in the English-speaking world by such things as the Peasants’ Revolt, Magna Carta, the American War of Independence, Eureka Stockade etc – so it is not a new or weird conspiracy theory, whacko notion. It has a long and honourable tradition indeed richly fertilised by the blood of patriots. Not so long ago (circa 1980) in accordance with these traditions Victorian citizens still enjoyed pretty much an untramelled right to own firearms yet police were not permitted to have them, nor would they then have entered private property without permission unless investigating a crime – so presumably with a search warrant – likewise in NZ and many other jurisdictions. We had a different perspective of the role of the police back then, maybe a better one.
Increasingly our society has moved more and more to a ‘police state’ where the citizens are incredibly trammeled (in contrast to just such a recent past), only permitted to have certain circumscribed ‘rights’ , these ‘rights’ being conferred or withheld by the state and enforced (or removed) by an armed and belligerent police force – as during the covid lockdowns. Previously these rights were considered inalienable, ie conferred by birth/existence (not the state) and it was deemed reasonable to resist efforts by an unjust state to remove or restrict them. Indeed it was the state’s duty to protect such citizens’ rights. It is a big change which has not been properly justified or publicly endorsed. It is unsurprising if (many) people still want to push back against it - as maybe the Trains did.
It also seems that all sorts of other ‘rights’ which they previously enjoyed had been removed (quite possible illegally after all – this has yet to be tested in court) for example using the so-called ‘covid pandemic’ as a pretext. Their right to earn a living, socialize, move around, ‘own’ their own body, & etc. Nathaniel may even have thought his heart attack was caused by his (mandated) covid vaccine. There is some evidence for this view after all. It is (unfortunately) only a simple (perhaps paranoid) step to thinking that there is a ‘plan’ to depopulate the world. The death toll has been rising post-vaccine. The bans which are being implemented here and there on nitrogen feriliser do seem aimed at decreasing the world’s food supply which can clearly only have one consequence, fewer people fed. These notions may be alarmist or eccentric, but they are not mad or evil.
Such events may well have helped to fuel a paranoid view of society’s intentions towards them such that when they then ‘perceived’ a contingent of armed police ‘storming’ over their front fence as they maybe had no right to do, they felt they had to act in the way they did perhaps because they feared for their lives against such a seeming frightening armed trespass. Who knows? In many jurisdictions you do have a right to shoot a trespasser if you fear for your life. This is well-known, surely to police?
Police could (and should) certainly have pursued a non-urgent missing person’s inquiry a little more circumspectly. It must have been known to them before they arrived that the missing man was likely to be simply visiting his brother, after all and in no danger, as well as being no danger to anyone.
All we will have from here on out is a demonisation of this
family of seeming law-abiding, religious, peaceable, middle-class school
principals ie the Trains as ‘murderers’, overlooking the fact that they too
were murdered, but by state-sanctioned murder, so I guess that’s all right –
until it happens to you or yours? The case is very worrying and I doubt we will
ever learn the ‘truth’ about it any more than we will about
One further point about people being shot dead (both the police and the Trains). I do not believe that they should have shot the police even if they had the legal right to do so – which for all I know they might have had. Entering past a locked gate with signage certainly sounds like ‘break and enter’ to me, whoever you are. I have read legal opinion that public officials do not have legal/constitutional ‘right of entry’ in such cases, no crime having been committed. I do not have the legal expertise to know.
But neither do I think police should shoot people dead
unless there is absolutely no other alternative. Given that the Trains could
presumably be contained in the area, there should (reasonably) be no limit to
the time you should spend ‘talking’ them down/out. The cost in money is quite
different to the cost in lives. Neither do we have a death penalty anywhere in
The final moments of the Train siege reveal that police (Presumably using thermal imaging , night vision, telescopic sights, body armor etc) deliberately shot to kill and kept shooting until they were sure all three were dead. In most jurisdictions this would be counted as extra-judicial murder. I understand that (some at least of) the Trains are alleged to have acted similarly (which may well be true), but they needed to be arrested and tried for those offences, then if found guilty and if we had capital punishment, executed: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/breaking-news/shots-fired-wieambilla-shooters-final-moments-captured-by-police/news-story/a2c7fc3d9417441198fc0d5f498697b9
16/12/2022: Musk’s Twitter revelations now undeniably prove that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen. This can no longer be painted as a ‘conspiracy theory’. This is bold hard fact. It (and the rigged 2022 election) need to be undone/redone. The ‘greatest democracy in the world,’, ‘the home of the Free’ cannot be allowed to continue as a petty dictatorship: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/rigged/
16/12/2022: It may sound sexist (notice this was also written by a woman) but this is how election demographics are currently working. And please note, things are being decided by such ‘educated’ folks (who likely could not even change a tap washer) which are completely beyond their ‘expertise’ and which will impact all of us more or less forever – such as the destruction of our energy system: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/09/wokey-women/#more-6520
16/12/2022: For example, About that energy storage pipe dream, “Here’s what tells you all you need to know: not only is there no working demonstration project anywhere in the world of the wind/solar/storage energy system, but there is none under construction and none even proposed. Instead, the proponents’ idea is that your entire state or country is to be the guinea pig for their dreams.” https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/03/the-manhattan-contrarian-energy-storage-paper-has-arrived/
15/12/2022: MH370: I thought this possibility was pretty obvious at the time. I am astonished that it has not been explored up to now: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/incidents/im-an-mh370-expert-i-know-plane-was-deliberately-downed-by-pilot/news-story/340ecc83e8afd61ccb9845a0cf2d9f3d
15/12/2022: A new Jan 6th deadline. Interesting. Maybe Trump will be back, and sooner than we might expect: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/tim-canova-supreme-court-considers-case-seeking-overturn-2020-presidential-election/
15/12/2022: A triumph of common sense over climate catastrophism – imagine if people had access to real science how few would be convinced ‘the end is nigh’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/despite-ostracism-namecalling-and-billions-of-dollars-nearly-4-in-10-globally-are-climate-skeptics/
15/12/2022:
14/12/2022: “Climate activists and politicians constantly
tell us electric cars are cleaner, cheaper and better. Many countries,
including
14/12/2022: I’m afraid Victor David
Hanson is right, that our society more and more resembles a decaying
14/12/2022: Handing Higgins millions of our money (behind closed doors) is probably the most unjust act I have seen from an Australian Government recently – where is all the dough for women who have been proven to have actually been raped? She may have deserved compensation if a case had been proved, but where is the justice for Lehrmann who is simply assumed to be a rapist without proof? https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/brittany-higgins-secures-multimillion-dollar-taxpayerfunded-compensation-deal/news-story/071b83448718a158e6ff9178d3d010eb & https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-the-questionable-price-of-political-payouts/news-story/6f4cbc66037f7c0da89c3107cf3cc2c6
14/12/2022: The Queensland Massacre: What was actually going on with this incident? Why would four armed police turn up to make ‘inquiries’ about a missing man who so far as I can tell was not wanted for any crime? If there were safety concerns why would they not have attempted to make phone contact or allay fears first? Then having completely sealed the area so that the offenders would have to have surrendered eventually, why was it necessary to ‘execute’ all the alleged offenders so that the only narrative we now have is the official police version? I notice that the ‘perpetrators’ who may have had somewhat eccentric but by no means unusual views are now being labeled as utterly whacko and evil. I suspect we will never know the truth. The incident recalls the similar story of Stan Graham in NZ back in 1941, a tragedy which (at least from my reading of the book) clearly could have been prevented if the situation had been handled rather differently (as local police had been doing), as I suspect so could this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Blood_(1981_film)
13/12/2022: Lawrence Livermore has just passed the break-even point with nuclear fusion: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fnuclear-fusion-lawrence-livermore-laboratory-b2243247.html
13/12/2022: Plan Melbourne & Dan intend to lock you up in your neighbourhood and forbid you to go more than a 20 minute walk away from home: https://youtu.be/iw-P37Fll3Q
13/12/2022: The West did not colonise, they civilized: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fnuclear-fusion-lawrence-livermore-laboratory-b2243247.html
13/12/2022: Once, when someone suggested a pie in the sky
proposal people used to say, ‘Do the maths’. Increasingly
few people can do maths at all. Here in
12/12/2022: Sir Roger Penrose has always produced astounding ideas but his latest thoughts about evidence of past universes (and the possibility oif communicating with them) and thoughts about the ‘quantum’ nature of consciousness are wonderfully liberating: https://www.strangerdimensions.com/2020/10/14/sir-roger-penrose-comments-on-the-universes-before-our-own/
12/12/2022: All about humans and fire – how fascinating: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-road-to-metallurgy-fire-and-rocks
12/12/2022: The future of childbirth – coming to you soon: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/german-molecular-biologist-unveils-concept-worlds-first-artificial-womb-facility-can-incubate-30000-lab-grown-babies-year-video/
12/12/2022: The coldest summer in Australia ever in Oz and in the Northern Hemisphere pretty much the coldest all of my (long) life yet no warnings of an imminent Ice Age from the climate freaks which is after all the most likely climate outcome after 6-8000 years now oif falling temperatures: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/the-coldest-summer-day-in-australia-and-nobody-notices/
11/12/2022: Should we revive epic poetry? https://tocharus.substack.com/p/why-epic-poetry-will-never-die
11/12/2022: When the money tree starts to wither and die: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/vanguard-abandons-net-zero-climate-finance-monster-group/
11/12/2022: The FBI is an unconstitutional unelected body maybe meant to be a police force, but not a government – what went wrong? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/the-united-states-of-the-fbi/
11/12/2022: Just throw the baby under the bus – there is no sane plan for achieving ‘net zero’ at all let alone in the time frame that its advocates envisage. Meanwhile everything else just falls apart. This is a recipe for nothing other than economic disaster: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/10/looking-for-the-official-party-line-on-energy-storage/
10/12/2022: The last dambuster passes: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/12/the-last-dambuster-sqn-ldr-george-johnny-johnson-mbe-dfm-has-died-per-adua-ad-astra-lest-we-forget.html
10/12/2022: When ‘enough’ is too much: https://moonbattery.com/teachers-continue-to-groom-small-children/
10/12/2022: Inventing the dead – how the aboriginal ‘grievance industry’ simply cooked up 100,000 murdered blacks from a record of absolutely none: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/the-voice/2022/12/the-lying-art-of-truth-telling/
Another way to assess this is to ask, ‘Where are the medals’?
Those C19th folks were particularly fond of issuing medals for every tiny
military engagement, yet there are absolutely none devoted to these ‘frontier
wars’ in
This is an indication of how bad this ‘race politics’ is likely to get: https://spectator.com.au/2022/12/parks-australia-when-bureaucracy-turns-racist/
10/12/2022: Who’d have thought: Elephants flourishing in
09/12/2022: The invisibility cloak that wasn’t: https://www.vice.com/en/article/88q3gk/chinese-students-invent-invisibility-cloak
09/12/2022: Be very sure: What they are doing in Oxfordshire is the future the left have planned for you: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/oxfordshire-council-to-trial-a-climate-lockdown-starting-2024/
09/12/2022: The long-term implications of MRNA technology read like science fiction, “The vaccine is incredibly risky, and basically, it’s achieving its goal. If the goal was to reduce the world’s population, it’s working.”: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/dr-mccullough-mrna-from-covid-vax-transfers-from-jabbed-to-unjabbed-changing-human-genome/
09/12/2022: If we want to replace coal-fired power stations (Why?) the only further question is what type of nuclear power plant to build. The conventional uranium plant does have the joint problems of nuclear proliferation and waste disposal which some other technologies don’t: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/07/submission-to-the-senate-inquiry-into-australias-transition-to-a-green-energy-superpower/
The WEF thinks we should leap right in to hydrogen-boron fusion (which does not yet exist) just like they think we should jump into ‘green hydrogen’ and other pie in the sky schemes: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/07/world-economic-forum-hydrogen-boron-nuclear-fusion-anticipated-by-2030/
08/12/2022: Soon we won’t be able to see the sky because we talk to the neighbour on the mobile phone: https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake8m4/a-huge-satellite-is-officially-one-of-the-brightest-objects-in-the-sky-astronomers-warn
08/12/2022: ‘Green’ hydrogen is likely to be the most expensive fuel you have ever heard about (if it is even possible). Around ten times the current cost of fuel: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/05/energy-storage-report-hydrogen-as-an-alternative-to-batteries/
08/12/2022: Scruton on Foucault – do people even know anymore where the great undermining of thought that exemplifies everything the left advocates actually came from? Foucault and Derrida were the demons behind it, but with a long history stretching back though Marx and Hegel. Once university was about examining and critiquing all such ideas. Now it is about accepting them wholesale: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/thought-for-the-day-scruton-on-foucault.php https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/12/thought-for-the-day-scruton-on-foucault.php
08/12/2022: Monty Python had a better take on all this: The Philosophers’ Football Match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUQx8IUcIzc
07/12/2022: New Pack Suspension System: For years I have been quite dissatisfied with backpack straps. They place a quite unnecessary and undue strain on a small area of the shoulders. It seems to me that for horses this problem was solved back in circa the C14th with the invention of the horse collar and associated hardware to allow a horse to pull a heavy load without destroying the horse.
Most pack manufacturers have decided that 'transferring the load' (somehow) to the hips via a hip belt is the solution. It is not. That 'solution' only acts (rather like other forms of torture such as foot binding to transfer the problem elsewhere without solving it at all. A hip belt restricts movement and comfort in just a different sort of way, that is all. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/12/06/new-pack-suspension-system/
07/12/2022: “So to date, we’re spending twenty-three dollars for each gallon of gasoline saved … economic suicide…It’s nothing but a money-transfer scam to benefit the wealthy”: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/06/the-mirage-of-electric-vehicles/
Hard to believe that this post is viewed by Facebook and Norton as about 'Violence'. What a weird world. And yet we are told AI contains the word, 'Intelligence"!
07/12/2022: Albanese (& Andrews) won despite the lowest Labor vote since 1934. This is true. Just let that sink in for a moment.Then ask yourself what sort of government we would have if there had not been all sorts of jiggery-pokery with the electoral system (over time) to ensure such a corruption of democracy and the people’s will. Some of them set (in stone) in the constitution even, such as the awfully undemocratic Senate ‘system’ where a vote in Tasmania (for example) is equal to more than ten votes in NSW. Then we have the dreadful ‘preferential’ system which leads to such excesses as we now see. Should we not go back to the ‘First Past the Post’ system still used in many countries where you have to make up your mind and the prize goes to the candidate who get the most support – what one would have expected of the notion of ‘representative government’ surely? There is much other quite real corruption including the ‘modern’ notions of early’ and ‘postal’ voting and the dominance of the counting/administration by untrustworthy left-wing hacks. We have sold the democracy which our diggers gave their lives for at Gallipoli etc for a mere bagatelle.
07/12/2022: Bruce Lehrmann’s quandary is another ‘Winslow Boy’ case. There is now to mechanism whereby he can clear his (good) name. Such a parlous state of affairs should never be allowed to happen. Such a trial by ‘media’ or ‘public opinion’, ‘Star Chamber’, ’Kangaroo Court – call it what you will ought never be allowed, never mind gain ascendancy over proper process. He should be able to prove his innocence (or that there was ‘no case to answer’, as the senior police who investigated concluded) in open court, so that he can ‘get on with his life’ which is all-but ruined: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/12/05/a-new-winslow-boy-case/
06/12/2022: “We are this season’s people. We are all the people there are, this season. If we blow it, it’s blown.” Schlomo Carlebach
06/12/2022: BTW: Have you noticed how everyone supports the Chinese anti covid lockdowns now? Yet not so long ago it was all, ‘Let’s stand with (Chinese) Dan’.
06/12/2022: Dark patterns – another subliminal trick: https://engage.uchicago.edu/rs/250-CQH-936/images/FY23-Fall-HL-virtual-1-LIP-Bonus-Content.pdf?s_src=N14808&mkt_tok=MjUwLUNRSC05MzYAAAGIcow7LM7CBRWkqiDmuNH0xxXKkD648GDLM9mRhpfEhkSwg3XSQbOFm2YMBPOd_DtEel-na3-PBMo3j22te4twYixXKDBT75xQFFLo8F1Yvr4W
06/12/2022: The science is settled folks – Richard Lindzen is arguably the world’s pre-eminent climate scientist, and he calls b------t. The correlation with CO2 is just not there: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/12/04/mit-climate-scientist-dr-richard-lindzen-rejects-climate-change-as-a-quasi-religious-movement-predicated-on-an-absurd-scientific-narrative/
Should you want to know more about ‘real science’ perhaps you should just check out one week’s review from the Science and Environmental Policy Project founded by Prof Fred Singer who was definitely the pre-eminent world climate scientist: http://www.sepp.org/twtwfiles/2022/TWTW%2012-03-22.pdf
05/12/2022: Good dog
05/12/2022: Did Monet invent impressionism with a single painting? You have to admit it was a pretty good one anyway: https://mymodernmet.com/claude-monet-impression-sunrise/
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.” — Keats
05/12/2022: Looks like in
05/12/2022: Why do the left want to shut down the food supply? Is this another ‘Holodomor’? https://issuesinsights.com/2022/12/02/the-elites-war-on-food/
04/12/2022: Some progress on Alzheimers at least: https://scitechdaily.com/positive-clinical-results-for-alzheimers-amyloid-clearing-drug-lecanemab-poised-for-fda-approval/ & https://newatlas.com/medical/alzheimers-disease-root-cause-axon-swelling/
04/12/2022: The evil that Higgins and her woke feminist cronies have done to an innocent man (who will never be allowed now to prove his innocence) is incalculable. In such cases the (false) complainant should be punished to at least the extent of the law that would have been applied in a successful prosecution of the accused, ie she should do serious gaol time: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/brittany-higgins-case-finally-over/
04/12/2022: You should certainly be able to chose voluntary assisted dying to end your suffering, but no-one should be able to force your decision: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/12/voluntary-assisted-dying-is-back-on-the-agenda/
04/12/2022: The WEF, UN, (ie the Greens and Left) want you locked in a very small area indeed in your suburb. Everything that is being implemented is aimed at that. Think about the move to electric cars, locking up more and more land in ‘National Parks’ (which you will be unable to visit), etc, etc. Let’s start to fight back people: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/oxford-2024-climate-lockdowns-start-you-will-be-tracked-and-trapped-in-your-suburb-and-happy-about-it/
03/12/2022: I don’t suppose this is sexism: https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/42520
In the meantime, did you realize that whites are now officially a minority in
the three largest
03/12/2022: Vic Libs are just crazy – they are set to chose someone as leader who is even more left-wing than Guy: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/john-pesutto-tipped-to-be-next-liberal-party-leader/news-story/7cd4bb0f9e0ffbb941da8cd85e192925
03/12/2022: Long since time we stopped funding these communists at the UN – who needs an unelected government anyway. When was the last time you voted in a UN election?: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/un-shakedown-threats-to-list-healthy-reef-as-in-danger-just-a-way-to-extort-climate-money/
03/12/2022: Net Zero is destroying the European economy. Dutton must repudiate this nonsense soon: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/12/europes-renewable-wonderland-now-cant-make-solar-wind-batteries-or-evs/
Matt Ridley’s explanation of the
Meanwhile Swiss look to ban use of electric cars over the winter to save energy: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/12/01/swiss-look-to-ban-use-of-electric-cars-over-the-winter-to-save-energy-n514785
02/12/2022: Vale the ‘last’ Rat of Tobruk. Both my father’s brother, Basil and Della’s father Bill also served in the North African campaign. How time flies. Seems like only yesterday we were celebrating their 70th or 80th birthdays. But soon even we children of the ‘Rats’ and other heroes who ‘saved the world for democracy’ will be gone too. Unfortunately and increasingly we are finding that their efforts were not permanently successful. For a time after WW2 freedom increased, then after about 1975 it moved into decline once more. Since then the world has been falling further into a kind of dictatorship maybe more successful and omnipresent than anything Hitler and Tojo (even Stalin) envisaged and this process is accelerating. The current generation will have to rise to the challenge of fighting this evil. My time is just about done, yet I have struggled to oppose the rise of state control all my life too: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11480009/Ernie-Walker-106-passes-away-surviving-NSW-soldier-infamous-Rats-Tobruk-battle.html
02/12/2022: Yes! https://babylonbee.com/news/trans-furry-named-best-in-show-at-national-dog-show
02/12/2022: I agree witht this guy that the climate cult is ‘ultimately doomed’ because its proposals cannot possibly work but it can do a lot of harm before it ultimately fails just as Islam has been doing for the last 1500 years even though clearly it too is a false religion: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/30/dont-be-so-sure-that-the-climate-extremists-have-won/
02/12/2022: Makes no sense to me anyway but I am not a voyeur. I prefer to do things than watch them: https://neveryetmelted.com/2022/11/28/the-most-boring-game/
01/12/2022: The largest squid weigh half a tonne and live in the deep ocean. Much smaller cephalopods have been shown to be intelligent. Is SETI looking in the wrong place? Should we be making efforts to establish communication with these guys? https://www.livescience.com/what-is-largest-squid
01/12/2022: An important lesson from Willis Eschenbach today, (couldn’t agree more), “I learned early about the importance of sharp tools. My second real job, at 13 years of age for $0.30 per hour ($3.00 per hour in 2022 dollars), was digging out a foundation for a new house with a pick and a shovel. And looking back, I was probably worth about that much per hour.
In those halcyon pre-PC days, working with a shovel was called “Playing the Swedish banjo”. Here’s a recent picture of me doing that very thing:
And I’ve played the Swedish banjo for more reasonable wages a number of times since I was 13.
Perhaps as a result of my work history, I divide folks into three groups:
Those who have used a shovel.
Those who have made money with a shovel.
Those who have sharpened a shovel.”
01/12/2022: You thought this could never happen: https://unherd.com/2022/11/a-biostate-wont-cure-the-west/
01/12/2022: Apple is conspiring with the communist dictatorship to lock down the Chinese people. Ditch your iphone now: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/apple-helps-communist-china-suppressing-protests-disabling-airdrop-feature-just-weeks-protests/
30/11/2022: Next time you get the sniffles just slip a banana up your nose: https://scitechdaily.com/new-banana-derived-therapy-is-effective-against-all-known-coronaviruses-and-flu-strains/
30/11/2022: The Tech giants just hate free speech: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/its-war-apple-moves-against-twitter-helps-ccp-so-musk-vows-to-air-skeletons-and-maybe-move-into-smartphones/
30/11/2022: Dutch Government to Shut Down 3,000 Farms to Comply with Global Warming Goals: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/dutch-government-shut-3000-farms-comply-global-warming-goals/
30/11/2022: Remember when there was not going to be any more snow – is this year a ‘tipping point’ towards the next ice age? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/28/the-end-of-snow-again/
29/11/2022: Thanks for that Spot: https://www.psypost.org/2022/11/a-new-study-says-time-spent-with-dogs-increases-brain-activity-in-the-prefrontal-cortex-64385?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
29/11/2022: The Libs need to grow a couple. You have to stand for something (except ‘woke’). Dutton, hurry up and reject the ‘Voice’, Net Zero, Climate Change, Renewables, etc, etc. You will never beat the Left by following them down their own rat-holes – as has been the case federally and in WA, SA, Vic and now NSW.
29/11/2022: This is a truly horrifying development: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/irish-government-criminalize-hate-speech-effectively-silencing-hold-different-opinions-penalty-5-years-imprisonment/
29/11/2022: Climate change makes floods less severe: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/climate-change-apparently-makes-floods-less-severe/
28/11/2022: A Tall Tail: https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/baby-girl-born-perfectly-normal-except-for-extremely-rare-tail/news-story/24807183d7e8e42a9ab1ebc47b077cd0
28/11/2022: I do support people’s ‘right to die’ but encouraging it and making it a spectator sport is another thing altogether: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/sick-canadian-clothing-line-la-maison-simons-exploits-young-womans-euthanasia-market-products-video/
28/11/2022: Will you be a ‘super-ager’? https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2022%2F11%2F26%2Fhealth%2Fsuperager-secrets-good-memory-wellness%2Findex.html
28/11/2022: Exactly, changes in CO2 mirror nothing which actually occurs in earth’s climate. Take sea ice for example: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/27/sea-ice-mysteries/
27/11/2022: Don’t try to find love online: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/online-love-gone-bad-peruvian-medical-student-lured-mexican-woman-visit-killed-harvested-organs-posting-video-tiktok/
27/11/2022: Duh! Why we should all have galvanized iron rooves. Another point is that if it is hotter insode the house this is because the roof absorbed more heat. That is we have changed the albedo (reflectivity) of our cities so that they absorb much more heat from the sun. It is little wonder then that they ‘appear’’ hotter in BOM/CSIRO data especially when the thermometers measuring this have moved to the city airports: https://www.theepochtimes.com/why-the-colour-of-your-roof-matters_4882907.html
27/11/2022: So now we know: Astra Zenica and Novavax were enormously safer. Glad that’s what we insisted on them for ourselves: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11464097/Covid-Australia-2022-Teen-misses-HSC-pericarditis-jab-reaction-cardiologist-issues-warning.html
27/11/2022: More power to computer models. By the time we get to COP100 there will be over 400,000 attendees! That’s a lot of jet planes, steak and lobsters to produce a huge amount of hot air – why building a trough works: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/23/the-future-of-cops/
26/11/2022: Titanaboa: Thank goodness we do not still have these guys in the back garden: https://www.thoughtco.com/titanoboa-worlds-biggest-prehistoric-snake-1093334
26/11/2022: How extreme the WEF is - Extraordinary that anyone would think the communist Chinese dictatorship was a ‘role model’: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/the_mask_is_off_wefs_klaus_schwab_declares_china_a_role_model.html
26/11/2022: Brown coal-fired electricity still only costs 4 cents a kilowatt hour. If you had the choice, don’t you think you would choose that over this ‘renewables’ mess which sees prices of $200 per kilowatt hour? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/shh-despite-a-bloodbath-quarter-for-electricity-prices-hated-brown-coal-still-sells-at-just-4c-per-kwh/
26/11/2022: You just can’t imagine that this wasn’t already the law everywhere: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/italians-who-refuse-job-offers-will-have-social-benefits-revoked-meloni-warns
25/11/2022: End the green b------t. Hand Dan the Can on Saturday.
25/11/2022: I’m sure the ‘little green men’ are worried about this too: Astrobiologists concerned about imperialistic consequences of galactic exploration: https://www.thecollegefix.com/astrobiologists-concerned-about-imperialistic-consequences-of-galactic-exploration/
25/11/2022: Back when the pandemic started I said I did not want a dollar wasted trying to ‘save’ me (being in the ‘elderly’ group who were most likely to die). I’m sure many/most of my peers felt the same. I/we certainly did not want others to die for me, but that is what seems to be happening with the vaccine deaths amongt the young who would not have died from the disease. Many more deaths overall could have been prevented and more cheaply – as I said at the time) by utilisng cheap ‘medicines such as Vitamin D, Zinc and Ivermectin: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/in-south-australia-last-year-suddenly-lots-of-young-adults-went-to-hospital-with-cardiac-issues/ & https://emeralddb3.substack.com/p/covid-2022-here-comes-the-big-kill
25/11/2022: CSIRO and BOM unfit for purpose. Contrary to
their hysterical ‘findings’ there has been no warming in
24/11/2022: DIY Crampons Equals 4WD Boots: I have had a number of falls and am still suffering from a sore (almost dislocated) shoulder and similarly sprained wrist but there is still much work to do. So recently I bought (from a local Bolt shop) some 15mm hex-headed self-tapping screws. These only came in stainless steel so were fairly dear at $20 per 100, but for this purpose you only need perhaps 20, so it will not break the bank. You can screw them directly into the soles of your boots (i used an electric drill) in suitable spots to create quasi 'hob-nailed boots'. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/11/23/diy-crampons-equals-4wd-boots/
24/11/2022: Next we have the ‘trans-human’: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/gender-is-complicated-i-am-not-human/
24/11/2022: Is this why we banned tanning beds: https://nypost.com/2022/11/21/naked-uk-woman-gets-trapped-in-tanning-bed/
24/11/2022: Looks like Shakespeare to me: https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/22/is-this-really-the-only-portrait-of-william-shakespeare-made-in-his-lifetime?utm_source=The+Art+Newspaper+Newsletters&utm_campaign=553f580c66-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_11_22_02_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-553f580c66-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D
23/11/2022: Sword of Damocles: A wild and windy night! We were checking on the creek and dams this morning after all the bad weather and discovered this new "Sword of Damocles"which had obviously launched itself from the huge blue gum above, embedding itself firmly and deeply in the ground on the track below. So glad no-one was underneath at the time! All the branches below are another blue-gum giant that came down last winter. It is still waiting for the farm to dry out enough so that we can get machinery in to undertake the task of removing it
23/11/2022: Well done: Army Vet Beat Shooter to a Pulp with His Own Gun: https://dnyuz.com/2022/11/21/an-army-veteran-says-he-went-into-combat-mode-to-disarm-the-gunman/
23/11/2022: About that Ivermectin again. Note its proven efficacy (third link) as against the ‘approved’ anti-virals and the number of studies (and patients) which support this – hundreds of times as much evidence for it as compared to them. Vaccination failed (as predicted) indeed has probably killed more people than the disease would have (if properly managed): https://richardsonpost.com/david-archibald/29447/covid-in-november/ & https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fcovid-19%2Ftruth-about-ivermectin & https://c19ivm.org/meta.html#tcite_whoapproval
23/11/2022: Good:
23/11/2022: 45,000 junketeers fly into
22/11/2022: Back to the moon: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-nasa-moon-mission-exceeding-expectaions.html
22/11/2022: Reality is not what we think it is. This may not affect how many elephants there are in the room but might affect how many angels there are on a pin-head: https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/reality-objective-exist/
22/11/2022: Why it is hard to say ‘extinction is forever’: https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-just-spotted-this-large-colorful-pigeon-that-no-one-has-seen-in-140-years?fbclid=IwAR2l_hjt-6ECqR3vY4rlxRhNeirDrFkWKwLkGNCLJluOAyeZ75crWgCeqZ8
22/11/2022: Cold kills. Here’s a little insight into why
60,000 folks died of cold in the
21/11/2022: A hot dog and a beer at the world cup in
21/11/2022: Forget Methane; its heating effect is even more pathetic than CO2. Water vapour is the only real greenhouse gas worth thinking about: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/19/methane-much-ado-about-nothing/
21/11/2022: Bastiat is great. Check out his ‘broken window’ analogy if you want to learn something about how economics actually works: https://archive.org/details/thingsseennotsee00bast or http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html#SECTION_G002
21/11/2022: Phantom Voters – I wonder how many we have here in Oz too? This is a key metric of the integrity of our democratic system. How can the rolls go unchecked for years and years? If we have mail-in ballots (we should not except in the most extreme cases of illness/infirmity and with vast safeguards) we will have scams. The same applies if we do not have voter ID on election day and serious penalties for fraud. It is also really important that everyone is voting with full knowledge – early voting means that this cannot be so. We should all vote on the same day and all votes should be counted openly and rigorously with lots of security checks: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/can-see-phantoms-get-off-voter-rolls/ & https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanthinker.com%2Farticles%2F2022%2F11%2Felection_fraud_20_ok_so_what_are_you_gonna_do_about_it.html
20/11/2022: The Joy of Closed Roads: As a follow-up to my
post Find
Your Own Places to Explore can I suggest that for years (in
20/11/2022:
20/11/2022: Enough of the trannie, “Be Kind’ b------t: https://urbanscoop.news/good-men-stay-out-so-bad-men-stand-out/
20/11/2022: A few decades ago they tried to scare everybody with global cooling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tAYXQPWdC0 & https://t.me/TommyRobinsonNews/41978
19/11/2022: Forgotten animals of
19/11/2022: The ‘red wave’ was real but so was the Democrat
voter fraud. We should not be so complacent here in
19/11/2022: “To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.” Solzhenitsyn. “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell. A somber reflection on the class war being fought in our schools by left-wing ideologues. You know this is happening here in Oz too: https://issuesinsights.com/2022/11/08/your-children-belong-to-the-state/
19/11/2022: No sooner did Trump declare himself in the race
for the Presidency than the Dems launched several attempts to incriminate him.
They are deeply afraid of this man – and so they should be. He might actually
succeed in ‘making
18/11/2022: And now we have $250 hearing aids. All along it was a scam: https://www.foxnews.com/tech/apple-airpods-cheaper-alternative-hearing-aids
18/11/2022: A great way to teach science: https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2022/11/15/coolest-high-school-science-class-ever-takes-students-hunting-n64411
18/11/2022: The best of both worlds? Why not: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/new-report-details-growing-trend-transgender-people-seeking-surgeries-male-female-genitalia/
18/11/2022: Good luck with that ‘energy transition’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/global-demand-for-gigawatts-is-insatiable-to-make-one-smartphone-takes-almost-as-much-energy-as-a-fridge/
16/11/2022: Massive electoral fraud again in the US: If you can’t see that Biden could not have performed so well in the election just last week and still be getting these poll results: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/fraud-9-believe-america-right-track-latest-poll-bidens-approval-dismal-39-days-scores-greatest-midterm-election-decades/
16/11/2022: That will teach them a lesson. What a ‘great religion’ – of course women don’t have ‘souls’ so it probably won’t even hurt them. Just like Descartes’ attitude to live vivisection of dogs really: https://hotair.com/karen-townsend/2022/11/14/iranian-parliament-votes-in-favor-of-executing-15000-womens-rights-protestors-n510889
15/11/2022: It is strange isn’t it that we can’t have more hydro dams because they ‘spoil’ the environment (though a much smaller area than wind or solar farms) and are their own batteries and do not require costly and dangerous lithium. I have long noticed that the Greens seem hell-bent on destroying the environment in order to ‘save’ it. Their huge wildfire destroyed ‘national parks’ are a case in point: https://spectator.com.au/2022/11/not-green-at-all/
15/11/2022: Artificial photosynthesis might ‘save’ us but it has a long way to go yet: https://phys.org/news/2022-11-chemists-artificial-photosynthesis-ten-efficient.html
15/11/2022: Not quite the only sane scientist in the room: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/11/the-biggest-public-policy-disaster-in-a-lifetime/
15/11/2022: Living within your means and paying your way: Personally I was brought up with this duo pretty much as creeds. To many they seem quaint now, if people have even heard of them. Debt always involves printing funny money ahead of its being earned/created, hence it is the chief cause of inflation. It robs the future to pay for present excess, and always robs savers and rewards spendthrifts – so is unwise (as policy) at best. It can only be justified in times of national crises (such as imminent invasion). Unfortunately people come to believe in it, that it is normal/desirable even – and keep voting for it. The popularity of a proposition has no connection with its truth (or otherwise) – else there would not be so many billions of folk wedded yet to various religions, each believing their own to be the font of all truth, yet failing to grasp the obvious fact that whilst they cannot all be true, they can all be false - and almost certainly are. Imagine believing the ridiculous proposition that there is something after death. As if road kill was going to bound back to life. And such after-lives are still so woeful geographically, being associated still with well explored ups and downs. What? Will Voyager eventually encounter God? We cannot keep on racking up debt (either personally or nationally) as if there will be no tomorrow. The piper will eventually have to be paid. Unfortunately (as the fate of Hamelin reminds us) it will be our children who have to pay that price!
14/11/2022: Who should/can we vote for at the next election?
The choice seems to have narrowed dreadfully. Once there was some sort of
dichotomy. Perhaps it was artificial but now we are just offered different
shades of the same thing – at least by the ‘major parties. Perhaps why they
have actually disappeared in some countries, such as
14/11/2022: What should we talk about? Interesting. I remember being surprised reading in P.G.Wodehouse years ago about the introduction of ‘small talk’ into society. I had not realized until then that it was ‘a thing’ – but there you go. I have always found it unbearably tedious, but no doubt (to others) my conversation is replete with all sorts of social gaffes resulting in my failing to dizzyingly ascend the social ladder: https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2022/11/people-oversharing-tmi-friendship-boundaries/671970/?utm_source=pocket_saves
14/11/2022: Hydrogen-Boron Fusion Looks like a good idea. A million years’ of electric power available – will that be enough? https://asiatimes.com/2020/04/hydrogen-boron-fusion-could-be-a-dream-come-true/
13/11/2022: Writing has always served really important purposes: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/09/oldest-known-written-sentence-discovered-on-a-head-lice-comb
13/11/2022: This is as at last an important step forward: https://www.carsales.com.au/editorial/details/aussie-company-gives-new-life-to-old-hybrid-and-ev-batteries-138333/?fbclid=IwAR0pDMQPdV9MMJuZ8zTkThcUuolNUFL-upkrFt7xBAG1Eq-870DT4q66gE8
13/11/2022: Once it was good news that the last Ice Age was going away: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/11/glacier-saga/
13/11/2022: They know how to do things in
11/11/2022: Starting to look as if the Democrat electoral fraud huge as it no doubt was, involving maybe nearly 20% fake votes may not have been quite enough!
11/11/2022: Duh! https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/11/08/national-park-service-warning-no-licking-sonoran-desert-toad/1341667947342/
11/11/2022: 200 million! Just a reminder of how many people
leftist governments murdered in the C20th – yet you wonder why I am a
conservative. The current conflict in
11/11/2022: Lithium mining does not look like a big win for the environment: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/13/lithium-mining-for-electric-vehicles-is-incredibly-destructive-to-the-environment-and-about-as-far-from-green-as-you-can-imagine/
10/11/2022: De Santis’ (
10/11/2022: It is unbelievable that people are behaving like this in the birthplace of democracy. Such vile, extreme antisemitism: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/11/london-horrible.html
10/11/2022: Have we made society too equal, so destroying it in the process? We certainly have far too many people who will not do meaningful work: https://www.city-journal.org/impoverished-by-equality
10/11/2022: So true: Why the quest for happiness is a fraud: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/07/the-big-idea-why-we-shouldnt-try-to-be-happy?fbclid=IwAR0W8SlKYwYPN2YZRX0YumH5HCE3QbCS17Co4hVclm2jtUjl4OUoE5M9wk4
09/11/2022: “Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”
George Eliot in Middlemarch’
09/11/2022: Making VR more real, now a VR headset which actually kills you. Great idea: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/oculus-headset-killer-palmer-luckey-nervegear-b2219992.html
09/11/2022: Soon we won’t even be allowed to be grandparents (after being banned from being mums and ads some time back). This ‘Newspeak’ nonsense is all quite insane: https://www.theepochtimes.com/australians-outraged-at-schools-renaming-grandparents-as-grandfriends_4849116.html
09/11/2022: Climate change has become a convenient excuse for doing nothing about real conservation problems. The dreadful ‘experiment’ of our constantly razed yet weed and vermin infested ‘National Parks’ which we may not even walk in here in Oz is a case in point: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/08/matt-ridley-green-zealots-are-threatening-real-conservation/
08/11/2022: A poignant and valid lament: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/economics/2022/11/the-stradivarius-and-the-market/
08/11/2022: Unless another massive electoral fraud succeeds
the
08/11/2022: You have to figure they will want to make euthenasia compulsory so as to get rid of us troubling old (right-wing) folks and no doubt the ongoing attack on the availability of painkillers is a quiver in their bow: https://www.breitbart.com/health/2022/11/04/doctors-advised-suggest-suicide-patients-canada-runs-out-basic-painkillers/
08/11/2022: There is some hope the world may rid itself of the inconvenience of ‘daylight saving’: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/daylight-saving-time?rid=0BE1689690A4BEB6E8876A8F4E63485E&cmpid=org=ngp::mc=crm-email::src=ngp::cmp=editorial::add=Health_20221106
07/11/2022: Is witchcraft making a comeback: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/was-lola-daviets-murder-motivated
07/11/2022: Trudeau shuts down the Internet – the Left is coming for your minds: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/woe-canada-justin-trudeau-comrades-seek-abolish-internet-freedom-canadian-citizens/
07/11/2022: A new internal combustion engine which is 50% more efficient: https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/a19909520/gas-diesel-engine-reactivity-controlled-compression-ignition/?src=socialflowFBRAT&utm_medium=social-media&utm_campaign=socialflowR%26T&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR0X4-eEkVW9-gz91cBUc1QL8s3IbIFSk6eYc9A4JaodpWE6HtC87x_OCQI
07/11/2022: Eschew Soothsayers – no-one knows what the future will be and anyone who claims they do is a charlatan. As an example, 100% of climate models predicted that it would be much warmer than it actually is: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/10/50-year-u-s-summer-temperature-trends-all-36-climate-models-are-too-warm/
The alleged warming becomes even less if you subtract the urban heat effect: https://www.drroyspencer.com/2022/11/de-urbanization-of-surface-temperatures-with-the-landsat-based-built-up-dataset/
And etc: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/05/how-ipccs-1990-predictions-expensively-failed/
06/11/2022: Tocharus – a fascinating site if you are interested in the importance of ancient history: https://tocharus.substack.com/p/the-diet-of-slaves
06/11/2022: Just in case you were thinking the recent
election in
06/11/2022: So, how long will it be before more people are killed by lithium battery fires than car accidents? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/saving-the-world-with-lithium-four-times-a-week-an-e-bike-battery-explodes-into-flames-in-new-york/
06/11/2022: Yes we have peak (climate) madness.
05/11/2022: A real anti-aging treatment – bring it on: https://scitechdaily.com/unexpected-scientists-discover-an-anti-aging-mechanism/
05/11/2022: I see the Chinese nearly lobbed a huge rocket on us (and probably you too). Only luck it did not squash us. Not really good enough Mr Xi – Try to emulate Elon in future: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/good-citizen-china-carelessly-crashes-23-tons-of-space-junk-on-earth-gets-lucky-but-300-flights-in-spain-delayed/
05/11/2022: Bring back Liz! Sunak must go! After re-banning fracking on Day 1 and rushing off to COP 27 which Liz shunned, he now sides with Palestinians and terrorists – how did he even get to be PM anyway? I thought that was decided (by a stunning majority) by an actual plebiscite of Conservative Party members? https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/3/uk-has-no-plans-to-move-israel-embassy-to-jerusalem-pm-office
05/11/2022: Too true: “Adult toddlers throw tantrums for the same reason as children: they desperately want something and have no idea how to get it…Anyone who’s ever been a parent will recognize these actions: throwing food, spilling milk, smearing paint on the walls, sitting on the ground and refusing to move. Add in the inability to properly dispose of one’s bodily waste, and the pattern is complete. This is the behavior of toddlers.” https://quillette.com/2022/10/30/moral-toddlerhood/
Their attack on the greatest art ever produced (while they
are able to produce nothing) is a grim reminder of the
04/11/2022: Do we have ‘Peak Woke’ yet: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/11/woke-must-be-close-to-peaking.html
04/11/2022: Huge differences in Covid 19 between these two countries. Why? https://peterhalligan.substack.com/p/a-tale-of-two-countries-one-with
04/11/2022: The Dangers of Low Atmospheric CO2 Concentrations – from a real climate scientist: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/03/the-dangers-of-low-atmospheric-co2-concentrations/
04/11/2022: I realize that it was the Left (Democrats) who were the slavery party and that it was the British people and British navy which (largely) ended it – and at great public cost – but it still amazes me how the ‘elites’ of today are (still) in favour of racist distinctions and preferments whilst using that very word as a weapon against their enemies ie any don’t agree with them – and instead support Martin Luther King’s contention that people ought to be judged solely on their worth as human beings: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/10/all-the-best-people-favor-racial-discrimination.php
03/11/2022: Nuts! Why we must ‘save the planet’ from our sheep: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/climate-injustice-a-personal-account-from-a-kiwi-farmer/
03/11/2022: The Conservatives’ motto, “Never let go of the old, or harm it in any way, until the new is well and truly in hand.” Take the oil industry as an example. (We are in for a very rough time): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/11/02/big-oil-small-oil/
03/11/2022: “Australians don’t want the state creating breadlines for kids – they want politicians to lower taxes, stop wasting money, fix the energy grid, get out of their lives, and return all those fines issued to innocent people during the pandemic.” But it’s not what Guy is standing for – if he stands for anything. We must put our wholesale support behind the other conservative alternatives despite some of their shortcomings else we will just have another four years of Dictator Dan, and basically ruin! https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/10/lobster-bisque/
03/11/2022: It has got to be past time they got rid of Joe. A guy who can’t even remember where and when his own son died is just not all there. But who are they going to replace him with? Not cackling Kamala surely? Do try to remember these folks have their fingers on the nuclear war trigger: https://nypost.com/2022/11/01/biden-again-wrongly-says-son-beau-died-in-iraq-in-stumbling-florida-speech/
02/11/2022: Why am I not surprised: https://www.psypost.org/2022/10/cannabis-use-does-not-increase-actual-creativity-but-does-increase-how-creative-you-think-you-are-study-finds-64187?utm_source=PsyPost+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d652cb89e1-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a44dd6ef29-d652cb89e1-127440501
02/11/2022: Good Question: Why hasn’t feminism made women happier? https://nypost.com/2022/10/29/why-60-years-of-feminism-has-not-made-women-any-happier/
02/11/2022:
02/11/2022: Looks like Bolsonaro will overturn the rigged
election in
01/11/2022: A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, "Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don't know where I am."
The man consults his portable GPS and replies, "You're in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.
She rolls her eyes and says, "You must be a Conservative!"
"I am," replies the man. "How did you know?"
"Well," answers the balloonist, "everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I'm still lost. Frankly, you're not much help to me."
The man smiles and responds, "You must be a Progressive."
"I am, replies the balloonist. "How did you know?"
"Well," says the man, "You don't know where you are or where you're going. You've risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You're in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it's my fault.
01/11/2022: Who needs a weather bureau when we can just use soothsayers instead? Things just get worse and worse. Does anyone (else) care: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/11/third-world-australian-met-bureau-cuts-back-on-weather-balloons-scientists-say-its-kind-of-horrific/
01/11/2022: Bowen is simply brain dead – he just wants us to live by extracting sunlight from cucumbers, as in ‘Gulliver’s Travels’: https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/unfeasible-and-unrealistic-to-have-small-modular-reactors-in-australia-bowen/video/dee65dbfd0a711926a209cd3767baaf8
01/11/2022: Evidently the Brazilian election is also
mathematically impossible. Is this the WEF and New World Order folks at work
again? Probably. (In
31/10/2022: You are what you eat: https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/30/food-that-looks-like-family-michigan-mom-makes-hilarious-meatloaf-resembling-her-son/
31/10/2022: House hunting on Mars: https://dnyuz.com/2022/10/29/house-hunting-on-mars-has-already-started/
31/10/2022: Sunak wants people dead but Truss did not. The
31/10/2022: Even (and at last) Greenpeace admits plastic recycling is rubbish, but it will not move on to burning it to produce electricity: https://www.city-journal.org/greenpeace-admits-recycling-doesnt-work
30/10/2022: Data shows net zero is a lie: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/eight_graphs_that_prove_net_zero_is_a_woke_scam
30/10/2022: Remember when the
30/10/2022: Integration, Yes! Well said Gary, (who was an ex-Labor Minister by the way): https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/10/reframing-the-debate-in-aboriginal-affairs/
29/10/2022: The ‘Ms Higgins’ case is just awful. This is not anything like the Adrian Baillie/Jill Meagher case, nor is she an innocent schoolgirl being dragged off the footpath in broad daylight and raped at knifepoint in the bushes. The law was intended to ‘protect’ such real victims and to punish the perpetrators. I have long said that such actual crimes merit the death penalty. But to consensually go to you workplace in dead of night, dead drunk, and to have no memory of the incidents is not the behaviour of an innocent. Such behaviour in itself should be punished by dismissal from employment (for both participants). That is about where the matter should have ended. There was never enough ‘evidence’ to bring a charge of rape. If there had been ‘evidence’ at the time Ms Higgins destroyed it. Her too bad. If the case fails, will she be charged with a crime (perjury, wasting police time, defamation, etc)? I doubt it – but in such failed cases where the other person’s reputation and morale has been destroyed for months or years there should be some corresponding penalty. A custodial period at least to discourage vexatious claimants.
29/10/2022: How did Stan Grant (perhaps a quarter or one-eight caste, if any – not so long ago he used to be Irish) get to be blacker than Jacinta Price – or even her mother Bess, or even her (still living) grandmother, one of the very last people to walk out of the Western Desert, meet Europeans for the first time and (in so doing) ‘vote’ to join the rest of the human race. I suspect a lot of it really is down to ‘Nugget’ ie boot polish, which perhaps should be banned and only purple allowed: https://www.rebelnews.com/jacinta_price_calls_out_labor_s_woke_federal_budget
29/10/2022: Under Ardern NZ is now ‘The land of the thought police’. Not sure I will be allowed in either. Did plan to go there hiking again next year – perhaps they will have a change of Government before then? https://www.rebelnews.com/i_wouldn_t_be_let_in_under_nz_s_opposing_views_ban_says_andrew_bolt
29/10/2022: “The demand for electric car drivers exceeds the supply”. Instapundit.
28/10/2022: Thomson Dam at 99.8%. It’s going to flow over – tomorrow probably. Second time only – maybe you missed it in 1996. Quite a sight. Plus lunch at the Erica, Rawson or Walhalla Pubs, but book: https://www.melbournewater.com.au/water-data-and-education/water-storage-levels#/ PS: It has gone over – view from the power station is the best:
28/10/2022: ‘Farming needs to stop’ to save the planet. Does insanity have a limit? Probably not. https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/22/farming-needs-to-stop-thats-the-single-biggest-driver-of-climate-change/
28/10/2022: If you aren’t concerned about this you truly are brain dead: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/australian-inflation-soars-to-73-highest-since-1990.html
28/10/2022: The Green Revolution - in other news: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/26/wind-farm-in-germany-is-being-dismantled-to-expand-coal-mine/
27/10/2022: On this day in 2011: "Went to
27/10/2022: ‘Free’ Power Bank: 'Waste not, want not' was another of my mother's favourite maxims - one I have certainly taken to heart, as my wife will attest as I has fill our house and sheds up with all sorts of 'mathoms' - hobbit for 'junk'.
I had two 'dead' laptop batteries which I probably ought to have binned or recycled but today (it was raining) I decided to dismantle them instead and stripped off the welded tabs. Each contained 6 x 18650 rechargeable lithium batteries.
Each cell was dead flat. After placing them in the single power bank I recommended here they (surprisingly) all came back 'to life'. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/26/free-power-bank/
27/10/2022: "By 2001...a chicken reached the weight at which it would be killed in one-third of the time and after eating one-third of the food compared with the 1957 breed...represents...reduction in waste and in the..land devoted to growing feed per chicken" http://www.rationaloptimist.com/blog/genetics-bigger-chickens
27/10/2022: The future that the green madness plans for or electricity/energy supply too. Vote for anyone else: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/unplug-the-fridge-uk-gears-up-for-hard-cold-winter-and-bbc-secretly-plans-for-a-national-blackout/
It’s the cold, stupid. The same sort of view is presented here, and the same conclusion: kick as many of our rulers out when we get the chance as we possibly can: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/26/lets-talk-about-real-climate-cataclysms/
27/10/2022: This new racist apartheid politics is enough (for
me) never to vote Labor/Coalition again. Imagine being denied access to any
public land in
26/10/2022: World’s dirtiest man dies (at 94): https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/worlds-dirtiest-man-dies-aged-94-months-after-taking-his-first-shower-in-67-years/news-story/257c86cf8ba484dc5c90add6a5c95136
26/10/2022: O2 is what we should really be worried about. Its percentage in the atmosphere wouldn't have to fall too much before our kind of life found it decidedly uncomfortable (especially at elevation). What is the environmentalists' response to this impending 'crisis': Lock up two molecules of oxygen for every molecule of carbon forever (ie CO2 sequestration). Fortunately life has another way: it is called photosynthesis: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/23/earths-great-oxidation-event/#more-72919
26/10/2022: Farage is almost certainly right - Sunak is not the man: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/globalist-ever-saw-one-believe-conservatives-doomed-nigel-farage-blasts-new-uk-pm-rishi-sunak-video/
26/10/2022: I hope this morning you are beginning to realize how hopeless Labor and the Greens are: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/opinion/andrew-bolt/andrew-bolt-tough-times-to-get-much-harder-under-labor/news-story/88e1d2c073aa7396ad1c94ec335f036a
24/10/2022: I know it is impolite to speak ill of the dead, but just a reminder (from 2016): The Royal Commission’s findings regarding Kimberly Kitching are that ‘(v) Kimberly Kitching should be charged with and prosecuted for aiding and abetting the contraventions of each of Diana Asmar, David Eden, Darryn Rowe, Nick Katsis, Saso Trajcevski-Uzunov and Lee Atkinson (Chapter 9).’ Yet Shorten’s Labor promoted her to a place in the Senate! Her death was then dressed up as a great tragedy – as if such (corrupt) folks ought not be executed (shot) out of hand.
24/10/2022: Save the Planet’, the ‘great unwashed’ scream,
yet we may have already done so (and by the unlikely means of the Industrial
Revolution’). Let me explain: Plants need @ 200ppm of CO2 to survive. If the
percentage drops below that (ie .02%) life will pretty much cease – yet the
pre-Industrial world tilted perilously close to that. The percentage has varied
from upwards of 20,000ppm in the time of the dinosaurs for example, down to
just over 200ppm over time, during which warm, tropical periods and ice ages
came and went completely uncorrelated to its percentage. However, steadily the
percentage of CO2 being liberated by volcanism and other processes eg from the
carboniferous rocks, coal & peat deposits etc where it ‘ultimately’ becomes
‘locked up, declined until just before the Industrial Revolution its percentage
was such that the cessation of life on earth was imminent. The forests shrank
and great plains and deserts spread across much of the
globe as there was not enough CO2 to build any more forests, and much of life
had to retreat to what were really oases to survive. Just in the nick of time
(folks of a religious persuasion will see this as predestined) as a result of
the Industrial Revolution personkind began to liberate vast quantities of
carbon in the form of CO2 and a wonderful profusion of life was the result. The
forests spread, the deserts and grasslands retreated and once more a profusion
of life saturated the planet: That is the era we are living in: the
Anthropocene. It can only get better! In the last @30 years this CO2 has caused
the increase of approx two
24/10/2022: I think the most awful part of this story is that the audience cheered: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/transgender-comedian-strips-naked-live-tv-broadcast-plays-piano-penis/
24/10/2022: May be ordering some of these bumper stickers: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/10/saving-australia-one-bumper-sticker-at-a-time/
23/10/2022: Cruising to the North Pole: https://us.ponant.com/destinations/the-arctic Should you think this voyage is down to
‘global warming you shuld realise nuclear subs have been doing it for a long
while: https://theaviationist.com/2016/03/21/watch-this-stunning-video-of-a-u-s-nuclear-submarine-breaking-the-ice-to-surface-in-the-arctic-circle/
and that the Vikings always used the North-West passage in their voyages to
Greenland. They had to abandon their
23/10/2022: SpaceX is really transforming space – not to mention communications here on earth. Rumour has it that Musk will ‘soon’ add functionality to Starlink which will allow cellphones to also act as satellite phones (when away from a conventional tower). That would be a game-changer: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-group-4-36-satellites-launch
23/10/2022: Finally positive proof covid 19 came from a lab: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/blockbuster-fingerprint-genetic-evidence-strongly-suggests-covid-was-bio-engineered/
23/10/2022: Alas, the ‘coup’ in
22/10/2022: Hajimari Boomerang Ball – have your kids got this amazing toy yet? https://hajimariball.com/
22/10/2022: Michael Shellenberger has some fine points here including that the ‘climate narcissism’ we see about us (especially in the young) might well be a result of “overprotection and coddling of children by their parents and other adults result(ing) in anxious, depressed, and grandiose adolescents”: https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1573370013054128129
22/10/2022: So much for Gillard being against ‘misogyny’. Did you realize she basically abolished women altogether? https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/10/gillards-guilt/
Meanwhile real women vote on more important issues: inflation, crime, schools, their kids’ futures… https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/wayne-root-las-vegas-oddsmaker-says-bet-house-gop-landslide-women-stupid/
22/10/2022: Well played Volkswagen: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/protestors-glue-floor-get-mad-company-doesnt-provide-bowl-urinate-defecate/
No sense warming or lighting climate protesters with fossil fuel.
In other news: https://babylonbee.com/news/sad-climate-activists-vandalize-a-picasso-but-no-one-can-tell
21/10/2022: The Simplest Electric ‘Motor’ – the black cylinder is a battery and the round object is a magnet. There are so many true and enchanting things children can be taught about the world without stuffing their developing brains with falsehoods and creeds: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25534051-100-show-children-how-to-make-a-simple-electric-motor-with-a-magnet/
21/10/2022: Even my dead dog wouldn’t vote for you – but evidently she could: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/dead-dog-receives-register-vote-mail-application-mi-dem-party-homeowners-response-priceless/
21/10/2022: China Won’t Stop Using Fossil Fuels Until Clean Sources Can Provide Enough Energy Security – why are they the only sensible nation? https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/china-says-cheap-energy-is-more-important-than-climate-wish-list/
21/10/2022: An awful crime and tragedy. 12
such deaths so far.
20/10/2022: Remembering that before John Howard and other
such nanny-staters people always had the right to bear arms: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/10/given-back-as-a-gift-that-which-was-taken/
PS: It appalls me that the
20/10/2022: No doubt some people dream of such things: imagine finding 100 naked men on the side of the road: https://www.news.com.au/world/united-nations-demands-investigation-after-100-naked-men-found-on-the-side-of-a-road/news-story/965a04a90628bb83d4a1c17a5a02825c
20/10/2022: The covid vaccine story just keeps getting worse and worse: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/alice-in-vax-land-lets-test-this-on-8-mice-and-force-it-on-50-million-children/
20/10/2022: Albanese lied to Parliament and the Australian
people (on a Stat Dec) and should be forced to resign. In yesterday’s Herald
Sun he was openly admitting he has been in contact with his brother in
18/10/2022: Cipolla’s five basic laws of stupidity – they ought to be graven in stone in every public place so we may harken to them: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/are-you-technically-stupid-check-the-third-basic-law/
18/10/2022: Past floods without CO2: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/the-forgotten-floods-of-victoria-from-150-years-ago/
18/10/2022: You wonder why anyone would want to create a virus that was nearly totally fatal: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/arrest-now-boston-university-doctors-create-new-covid-variant-80-kill-rate-funded-dr-fauci-nih/
18/10/2022: Antisemitic ALP at it again.
17/10/2022: Seems there are folks who can’t distinguish
between disagreeing with a culture, and ‘racism’, the newest easy ‘put-down’ –
all too distinguishable from ‘thought’. They have forgotten (apparently – did
they ever know?) that most of my and my parents’ lives (this is litotes) was
spent fighting the dreadful culture of communism, or that some years of my
parents’ generations’ lives were spent eradicating the culture of Nazism, or
that my generation stamped out the culture of cannibalism in New Guinea (and
with it that fascinating parasite – responsible for the dread disease ‘kuru’ –
which more than anything I know of proved that ‘life will find a way!), and so
much more. Evil must be fought, whether it is politically correct to do so or
not. Not all cultures are equal, certainly not all are good, and some are
downright execrable. A culture which supports extreme violence and sexual abuse
of women and children for example, must not be allowed to remain. There is
ample evidence that there are some cultures which do have horribly evil
characteristics at their very core: they must be eliminated. (I have no time
for the Saudis, for example). Traditional ‘aboriginal culture’ is an oxymoron.
I am not (of course) advocating harming or killing any human being when I say
this. For example, I had a number of friends who were ‘patrol officers’ in
17/10/2022: Oh Liz…Definitely not another Maggie Thatcher then, alas. Fourth ‘Treasurer’ in three months – have the Brits forgotten how to add up – like everyone else? https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/14/uk-pm-liz-truss-fires-finance-minister-kwasi-kwarteng.html
17/10/2022: The climate is enormously, inherently stable. The world “has had millennia to settle into those planetary-scale patterns of temperatures and available sunshine…Once the average available solar power is above 310W/m2, you can add up to an additional 50 W/m2 without increasing the surface temperature one bit.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/16/solar-sensitivity/
17/10/2022: Peter Smith has a very valid point about
imposing a
16/10/2022: ‘1883’ – a great new series. Della doesn’t
usually share my passion for Westerns but she really enjoyed this. Get it from
16/10/2022: Disappointments of time travel: https://www.ancient-origins.net/artifacts-ancient-technology/ancient-technology-0017394
16/10/2022: Bring it on: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-10-scientists-osteoarthritis.html
16/10/2022: Serial Killer diversity has come a long way: https://www.frontpagemag.com/serial-killers-are-too-white/
15/10/2022: ‘Derry Girls’, the funniest thing to come out of
15/10/2022: So, Pfizer now admits they never tested to see whether their vaccine would prevent covid transmission. We put such people in charge! https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/pfizer-exec-admits-under-oath-we-never-tested-covid-vaccine-against-transmission
Meanwhile, Dr Peter McCullough: "Before the Covid jabs, 4 in a million Myocarditis cases, afterwards, 25,000 in a million....Myocarditis at this point in time is due to the Covid jabs until proven otherwise." Myocarditis, a 6,000 times increase – just a coincidence!
15/10/2022: Bring back the cane for such spoilt vandals. I am sick of being lectured to by half-witted badly raised infants of whatever age: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/climate-activists-throw-soup-on-van-gogh-painting-to-save-the-world/
14/10/2022: Find Your Own Places to Explore An ‘extension’ of an earlier post, Gully Walking
I have always liked Robert Frost’s poem ‘The Road Not Taken’ even though I realised long ago how much he/it owed toward my even more favourite poet, Edward Thomas. However I too long ago “took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference” as Frost reflects, and I urge you to do the same.
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
It is all very well (as a beginner hiker/outdoorsman) perhaps to first experience some of the outstanding ‘great walks’ which abound in your country, but soon you will realize that they are both too crowded and have long since stopped providing quite the bliss of solitude and exploration which perhaps their creation envisaged. But you have to start somewhere.
Before you head off on your own ‘road’ you first need to master some bushcraft skills such as I have been talking about here for quite some time. You need to be able to find your way unaided (ie with just your senses and intelligence through the trackless bush (for days at a time) – and this takes study and practice. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/13/find-your-own-places-to-explore/
14/10/2022: Just a small mistake: https://www.wxii12.com/article/suspects-finger-severed-victim-slams-door-hand-attempted-home-invasion/41585440#
14/10/2022: Do you need further proof that EVs will not work: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/13/dear-neighbour-please-ration-your-electricity-use-so-our-evs-can-charge/
14/10/2022: Glyphosate not the bad guy then: https://www.acsh.org/news/2022/10/11/science-finally-winning-day-glyphosate-cases-16602
13/10/2022: More questions for our time: Did Kosciuszko die of acne? http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65336
13/10/2022: Five compelling reasons why you should reject ‘man-made climate change’: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/five-climate-change-smoking-guns-reasons-manmade-climate-change-lie/
13/10/2022: Which came first – Nazism or environmentalism? https://www.encounterbooks.com/features/nazis-embraced-environmentalism/
13/10/2022: ‘Who blew up the Kerch Bridge’ – a question to add to ‘Who blew up Nords 1 & 2?’ https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/russian-spy-agency-identifies-crimean-bridge-bombers-reveals-route-bomb-ukraine-bulgaria-armenia-georgia-exploding-russian-bridge/ & https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/who-really-blew-up-the-kerch-bridge/
12/10/2022: A grand old lady passes: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/angela-lansbury-murder-she-wrote-star-and-legendary-hollywood-actress-dead
12/10/2022: Peak Oil Anyone? https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/10/04/the-permian-basin-the-gift-that-keeps-on-giving/
12/10/2022: Clearly they knew about covid much earlier than we were told: https://nypost.com/2021/06/04/chinese-scientist-filed-covid-vaccine-patent-after-contagion-emerged-report/
12/10/2022: Neither do I think this was ‘misinformation’. Such ‘information’ as we got was rather poor and very one-sided. The move by ‘Big Tech’ and Big Gov’ to throttle it was dire: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/florida-surgeon-general-advises-men-aged-18-39-not-to-take-covid-vax-twitter-deletes-misinformation/
11/10/2022: Jacinta Price is great. Hers is the kind of ‘Voice’ we need as a nation.: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/the-jacinta-juggernaut/
11/10/2022: How good are EVs in an emergency? Now those which got wet are exploding. Great stuff: https://12ft.io/proxy?ref=&q=https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/09/electric_vehicles_and_the_evacuation_of_florida.html
11/10/2022: An author to check out: https://althouse.blogspot.com/2022/10/she-holds-six-of-top-10-spots-on-new.html
11/10/2022: Today’s Left seeks to turn everywhere into
10/10/2022: Merrin’s Wiggly Stick: This afternoon as I came out of the front door after lunch to go work on the tractor I saw the largest red-bellied black snake I think I had ever seen just sliding under the fridge on the verandah then it simply disappeared. I poked around under the fridge, even moved the fridge; yet there was no sign of it. I thought ‘No way such a large snake could be in the rat bait station next to the fridge’ but when I lifted the lid there it was. I suspect it had been there before. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/10/merrins-wiggly-stick/
09/10/2022: ‘How dare you do anything productive!’ is pretty much the motto of local councils the world over: https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/diddly-squat/
09/10/2022: When renewable electricity becomes so expensive you can’t afford to make solar panels: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/netzero-destroys-netzero-europe-cant-manufacture-solar-panels-due-to-high-energy-prices/
Fortunately we will be able to warm ourselves from EV fires: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/after-the-storm-then-come-the-ev-fires/
09/10/2022: A New Welcome to Country. Yes, ‘Before beginning, I’d like to acknowledge the sovereign land of Australia and the institutions and way of life that ensure our freedoms and liberties; one land, one nation, one people. We stand on the shoulders of giants and as a result of their legacy Australia is a beacon of opportunity, equality and justice in an increasingly dangerous and hostile world.’ https://spectator.com.au/2022/10/a-new-welcome-to-country/
09/10/2022: Remember when 3,000 people used to be killed in car accidents annually and it was a problem requiring various draconian solutions (many of which have been implemented with detriment to our freedoms, alas) but now that 10,000 excess deaths are occurring we should ignore it: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/new-cdc-data-shows-7-7-of-10-million-people-needed-medical-care-after-vaccination/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/10000-mysterious-excess-deaths-in-australia-that-no-one-wants-to-talk-about/
08/10/2022: Eating on the Wild Side – cheaper than the supermarket anyway: https://www.amazon.com.au/Eating-Wild-Side-Pharmacologic-Implications/dp/0816520674?asin=B08W9LRC7D&revisionId=e17c26ab&format=1&depth=1
08/10/2022: When the lunatics are in charge of our energy supply: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/10/05/guest-post-dr-faustus-abide-with-me/
08/10/2022: CPAC underlines the woeful state of the Liberal/National Parties. Truly a new conservative force in Oz politics is needed, soonest: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/10/cpac-and-its-no-show-conservatives/
08/10/2022: Regarding aboriginal ‘displacement’, one should
understand that almost no women came to
07/10/2022: Be Prepared: 'A word to the wise is enough'. Unfortunately for most people 'a word' is not enough. Every year world-wide tens of thousands of poorly prepared people disappear or meet their end in the back country when they should have just been having fun, admiring the view of that far horizon, peering around the river's bend to see what's there and breathing that clear cool air deeply. I hope I can prevent a few such unfortunate events. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/10/05/be-prepared/
07/10/2022: Men’s Lib Anyone? Yes, we have a problem, eg “We also need a national recruitment drive for male teachers. Boys do better in schools with more men at the front of the classroom, especially in subjects like English. But men account for a shrinking share of the teaching profession: just 24%, down from 33% in the 1980s. In elementary schools, only 11% are men. And in the earliest years, men are virtually invisible. Just 3% of kindergarten teachers are men, which is about half the share of women flying military airplanes. Men, our schools need you.” : https://nypost.com/2022/10/01/why-us-boys-are-failing-at-schooland-men-are-losing-in-life/
07/10/2022: Hard to believe this guy (and Lomberg) used to be the enemy: https://www.amazon.com.au/Apocalypse-Never-Environmental-Alarmism-Hurts-ebook/dp/B07Y8FHFQ7?asin=B07Y8FHFQ7&revisionId=8daa18d4&format=1&depth=1
07/10/2022: Whatever happened to the notion of ‘treason’? https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/if_you_chose_isis_you_are_no_longer_australian
06/10/2022: Might be nice if you like cruising: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EouzzYmXyhA&t=3621s
06/10/2022: Is there hope? “This is a classic case of the slowly boiling frog. We are frogs slowly boiling as we speak. It is the fate that the great economist Friedrich Hayek warned us of in his best seller of the 1940s, The Road to Serfdom. He argued that totalitarianism can creep up by stealth and not only through revolution. Benign innovations like the welfare state turn, over time, into freedom-destroying, socialist disasters that no one, despite being in democratic systems, voted for. Hence, we get stuck with failed education systems that peddle propaganda and sideline parents, we get stuck with paying for subsidies to windfarms and solar panels, we get woked to death at every turn, we get abortion and euthanasia, we get COVID tyranny and discrimination. We get rule by experts that none of us have ever heard of, and who are, in any case, seldom expert at anything except controlling us. Oh, and we get mass immigration that has never, ever been debated on the hustings and for which nobody had a mandate. We get the Voice, despite Albo’s getting only 31 per cent of the primary vote — about the same as the alt-parties combined. So, we get the Voice but we don’t have a voice… we now inhabit a world where our rights are reduced to nought and the values that we still cherish and which substantial majorities of our fellow citizens once did too, are now minority views scorned by loud voices across the system. The duty to fight against the tyrannies that we have had foist upon us is more important than ever. And the uphill battle has taken on a steepness that will be uncongenial to most of us”. Things look bad, but maybe start ‘turning up’. At least get out there and vote for the Lib Dems, One Nation, UAP, Freedom Party & etc. Let’s show Andrews and Guy that we don’t want either of them: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/10/the-duty-to-make-a-stand-and-fight/
06/10/2022: And you thought you could keep foxes (not to mention ‘the yellow peril’) out of Oz: https://phys.org/news/2022-09-pacific-ocean-world-supercontinent.html
06/10/2022: If they did it once then they likely did it twice: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/flashback-cia-sabotaged-soviet-pipeline-europe-1982-us-software-caused-massive-explosion-siberian-pipeline-seen-space/
05/10/2022: Outback Boats:
05/10/2022: A great business plan for the next gun amnesty: https://www.wktv.com/news/local/man-claims-he-was-paid-21-000-for-3d-printed-guns-at-new-york-ags/article_8e3be6fc-3eac-11ed-976b-7399515a1395.html
05/10/2022: A Compendium of Climate Lies: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1576596964447203330.html
05/10/2022: Thanks Dan: Another $600 million down the drain: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/victorias-white-elephant-covid-quarantine-camp-officially-granted-white-elephant-status.html
04/10/2022: Do you think I was wrong in 2012 when I wrote
this: “So, the Reserve Bank is still playing fast and loose with our money: as
if Capital was so easy to come by - instead of taking a lifetime of hard work
and saving. At current levels the reserve bank's rates barely (if at all) keep
pace with inflation leaving savers with no income from their hard-earned money.
On the other side of the ledger the punters who want to further leverage their
outlandish Macmansions are encouraged to do so to the detriment of those who in
the current real estate climate can't afford housing at all and have to
continue to live with their parents and grandparents: I know several 'middle
class' families of Sydneysiders (all hard workers) who are sharing three
generation housing. Higher interest rates would advantage savers (including
those saving for a home) and force the outrageous price of housing downwards.
It would take probably twenty years of interest rates above 10% to force house
prices down to the more modest American level. Question: Why does it cost
several times more today to create a block of land and a house than it did
thirty or fifty years ago? Where are the benefits to housing of productivity
growth and labour saving machinery? In the 1950's, 60's and early 70's a father
could afford to be the only wage earner and support a wife and two children
whilst paying off a house and car. What happened to that Australian dream? Even
though we have had reasonable income all our lives with both of us working and
contributing, we have only managed to pay off a modest house (about half the
value of a house in
04/10/2022: Perrottet gets worse and worse. Today he suggested draconian penalties against folk who (perfectly rightly) objected to racist ‘welcome to country’ nonsense at the footie. Let’s just have one country for all without any of this ‘race’ b------t, please! Somehow this has now been suppressed into a news item about maybe one person giving what might have been a Nazi salute and might just have been an awkward hand gesture too. Perrottet’s love of racism is just dreadful. First we have a divisive and frankly offensive flag replacing the NSW flag on the Harbour Bridge (as if someone else built that icon) then the news that he will be handing over all the land in National Parks to a certain race, now this threat to gaol or permanently ban anyone who objects to his racist politics. What next? White slavery anyone? As if this was not already the case when you consider the huge percentage of his beloved ‘folks of colour’ who are ‘welfare dependent’. Who is doing their work for them (or paying their land rates) then? (Of course the way immigration has been going it will be other ‘people of colour’). We must just have one country, equality of all, everyone standing on their own two feet, supporting themselves without any blame games or weak claims of victimhood.
04/10/2022: In case you wonder why the Left want us to move over to electronic voting systems…You should have little doubt who Google (or Goolag as you might prefer to call it) wants to win: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/10/biggest-victory-patriots-history-brazil-despite-massive-fraud/
04/10/2022: ‘Lies, damned lies and statistics’. Imagine being able to completely explain away the fact that women outlive men by seven years: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-find-that-men-have-a-high-probability-of-outliving-women/
03/10/2022: When life goes wrong: https://stoneageherbalist.substack.com/p/the-tale-of-richard-hoskins-a-life
03/10/2022: More Nigerian school-women rescued from terrorists: https://www.wnd.com/2022/09/schoolgirls-found-alive-8-years-notorious-kidnapping-case/
03/10/2022: We own the science; we own the truth – even if it is demonstrably wrong: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/10/we-own-the-science-brags-un-chief-who-works-with-google-to-suppress-climate-skeptics/
02/10/2022: Best strategies for longevity: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-older-adults-factors.html
02/10/2022: Beware: “The Voice is a move to create new constitutional entitlements by stealth. It would jettison the principle that, no matter when they or their ancestors arrived here, all Australians are equal. If it is successful, the real victims will be the majority of Australian voters who will find their country’s long-standing political commitment to egalitarianism and a fair go has been emasculated behind their back.” Giving away our National Parks and other public lands (now 60% of the country) is just creating a new hereditary ‘nobility’ this time based on supposed ‘race’ but which is not subject to the same laws as the rest of us, eg no need to pay rates or lose property because of unpaid rates. We have spent literally centuries getting rid of such evils:
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/10/international-law-and-the-voice/
02/10/2022: The green movement wants to take food production back to the Middle Ages (and population with it): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/29/climate-activists-attacking-fertiliser-use-food-mass-production/
02/10/2022: 140,000 clearly fake votes found in just one
county in
01/10/2022: So, what’s ahead? “Half a generation of traumatic experiences will eventually make firm rules of monetary stability acceptable. This time round they will have to be strictly and consistently enforced. In most nations, it will be necessary to cut back the burdens of government, although international conflicts will impose unavoidable new costs. And it will require courageous politicians who permit as much competition in capital, labour and product markets as it takes to produce a rise in entrepreneurial creativity. Nonetheless, the core elements of the 1980s recovery—stable money, smaller government, freer markets—and the political courage to oppose particular interests will again have to become the policy priorities if the huge task ahead is to be resolved.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/09/the-arduous-path-back-to-stability-and-growth/
01/10/2022: NSW introduces apartheid. Horrifying. This nonsense (evil) must end: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/paying-the-rent-with-our-national-parks/
01/10/2022: Surely you just can’t vote for a mass murderer (Andrews) no matter how bad the opposition – but now there are other alternatives. (One Nation, Freedom Party, UAP, etc) The likes of Andrews are presiding over daily deaths from covid sometimes of hundreds of people due almost solely to their refusal to implement cheap sensible prevention and treatment options which others succeeded with. Compare the Daily Deaths – and think about who is responsible here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/india/ & https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/australia/
30/09/2022: Should we live a riskier existence – an interesting perspective: https://www.city-journal.org/bring-back-risk?utm_source=pocket_mylist
30/09/2022: At least Liz Truss is having a go at economic reform. It is a better direction anyway than ‘more socialism’ which seems to be the default position elsewhere: https://www.afr.com/policy/foreign-affairs/trussonomics-revolutionises-the-tax-debt-growth-conversation-20220922-p5bk2h?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR3T7qwzQhKTiklmlCYpFokFL61sySOlpAOHhcbQy9ySKJzElZGhTist55o#Echobox=1664080310
30/09/2022: The climate models are just so bad – you would not want to bet your hard-earned on them: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/climate-models-not-good-enough-to-invest-my-superannuation-in-says-modeler-prof-andy-pitman/
30/09/2022: This was a typical ‘first nations’ and victimhood scam: https://www.commonsense.news/p/the-great-canadian-mass-graves-hoax
29/09/2022: This is a profound and important essay. For example, “The self cannot bear such a heavy burden as creating its own happiness. Vitz pointed out that disengaging from institutional legacies reduces the sense of resilience, of drawing from the wisdom of the past, of being connected to others. It creates harm in attacking our respect for rational thought, in our understanding of objective reality, which ties in well with the critical theorists’ undermining of Western thought itself.” https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/09/the-psychologist-who-resisted-the-cultural-onslaught/
29/09/2022: What an evil witch this woman is. (Hopefully she is soon to be gone): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/ardern-tells-un-internet-freedom-is-a-weapon-of-war.html
29/09/2022: “In a unsettled world, countries which don’t have energy security don’t have any security at all”. Can I remind you that we import most of our transport fuel and that ‘reserves’ are only about three weeks. Small modular (nuclear) reactors make more strategic sense than big energy projects: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/as-underwater-gas-pipes-explode-ponder-that-a-third-of-uk-gas-comes-from-an-underwater-pipe/
29/09/2022: Meanwhile, Congratulations Australia you are already at ‘net zero’: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/09/congratulations-australia-youre-already-at-net-zero/
28/09/2022: One Pacific island which is definitely not shrinking: https://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/natural-wonders/new-island-discovered-in-pacific-ocean-after-tonga-underwater-volcano-eruption/news-story/2168f014f4b7f78efb2492f1b8a73cfa
28/09/2022: Someone blew up the two Nordstream gas
pipeleines ensuring
28/09/2022: The new Italian leader seems to be a breath of fresh air – likewise the new Swedish one. The times they are a’changing: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/giorgia-meloni-italy-without-roots-and-an-identity-you-are-a-slave-the-perfect-consumer/
28/09/2022: How
27/09/2022: It is not just our family of Joneses which arose from this Ely swamp: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65203
27/09/2022: Clearly people were right to be concerned about the MRNA vaccine. Its adverse effects have proved to be worse than any other medical treatment in history: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/we-should-stop-all-covid-vaccinations-says-uk-cardiac-surgeon-who-once-promoted-them/
27/09/2022: Lots of Russians clearly do not support Putin’s
war on
27/09/2022: Hard to believe. Sad I can’t apply: https://chaninicholas.com/careers/
26/09/2022: Astonishing images from Jupiter: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11238745/NASAs-Juno-probe-snaps-stunning-photo-Jupiters-clouds-look-like-frosting-cupcake.html
26/09/2022: Who knew? “According to scientists measuring cumulative energy demand (CED), production of the average lithium-ion battery uses three times more electrical energy compared to a generic battery.” So, what happens when the grid collapses? https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/25/rafes-roundup-25-sept/
26/09/2022: The EU is the biggest economy in the world yet their fertilizer production is down 70%. We are going into a very lean time for the world’s food production: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/just-like-that-european-fertilizer-production-down-70/
25/09/2022: Very well done: https://www.fieldandstream.com/fishing/kayak-angler-catches-marlin-hawaii/
25/09/2022: Back from the dead: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ancient-aphrodisiac-0017316
25/09/2022: Just when I got a new Knee: https://newatlas.com/medical/moximed-misha-shock-absorber-knee-implant/
25/09/2022: Two brothers who couldn’t be less alike. Your remember the rabid commie and anti-Semite Jeremy? Well here’s his brother Piers the climate sceptic: https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/nothing-do-man-astrophysicist-says-climate-cultists-are-gravy-train-make-money
24/09/2022: It begins, maybe…Big news breaking in
24/09/2022: Just have to hope my wife, Della does not join Peta. Not much risk of that though I suspect: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/peta-calls-for-female-sex-strike-to-save-the-planet-from-storms-caused-by-steak-and-sausages/
24/09/2022: Can anything save
24/09/2022: Our society cannot survive renewable energy – the wind droughts will kill it: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/22/not-enough-oats-in-the-european-power-supply/
24/09/2022: Wow! Covid vaccines have been shown to be 98 times worse than the disease itself in young adults: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/ethically-unjustifiable-new-harvard-johns-hopkins-study-found-covid-19-vaccines-98-times-worse-disease/
But doctors may not warn you: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/vaccine-news-is-so-good-that-california-state-bans-doctors-from-saying-what-they-think/
23/09/2022: How to scan and share old print photos with your phone. Maybe this is a solution? Get the App 'PhotoScan by Google Photos' from the Google Play Store. The App takes several photos of the original and puts them together, finds the edges corrects them & etc. Scan the photos during the daylight maybe on the verandah. You don't want reflected light from an overhead lamp etc. If you have a decent phone camera this will make a beautiful photo in seconds. You will probably have to save it to Google drive and share it from there eg by email. It works: https://www.google.com/photos/scan/
23/09/2022: Just a year ago really: Western civilization is sliding off the cliff, and most people in the western world aren't even aware of that…Do you think there's any chance of getting Taliban commanders to teach at West Point? It might be a nice change of pace for cadets to learn from someone who actually won a war.” https://www.steynonline.com/12726/dead-superpower-walking
23/09/2022: Maybe we can do something to destroy the green blob after all: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/winning-antitrust-laws-slow-down-the-climate-plans-of-monster-cartel-of-un-and-global-bankers/
23/09/2022: Without science and engineering we are just children playing with someone else’s toys: https://americanmind.org/features/florida-versus-davos/five-myths-about-china/
22/09/2022: More Michael Faradays please: https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-faraday-is-worth-1-000-faucis-science-electricity-computer-dynamo-equity-fairness-stem-pandemic-pew-trust-experts-11663505143?st=p1602fxqywwa5gr&reflink=article_email_share
22/09/2022: And it isn’t just Merkel who is a commie shill. Most of our Western leaders have taken the thirty pieces of silver: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/angela-merkel-kgb-asset/
22/09/2022: I hope the past year’s imbroglio in
22/09/2022:
Meanwhile, good news from the
21/09/2022: Remember when this guy used to be one of them – he has certainly ‘seen the light’: https://michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/why-progressives-undermine-civilization?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
21/09/2022: Things have got bad under Biden – don’t expect better under Albanese: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/greatest-loss-of-household-wealth-in-history/
21/09/2022: It’s not just me who is opposed to the sexualisation of children it seems. What is going on here: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/gays-groomers-permanently-deplatformed-paypal-venmo/
21/09/2022: ‘I honour my God; I serve the Queen; I salute the flag.’ We recited this every morning during school assembly. Though I have never been a theist, I do not think it was a bad thing – but alas, it will never be repeated by our children again. Farewell Your Majesty.
And good luck with that republic Albo – maybe you should have consulted your own members first: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/roy-morgan-poll-huge-increase-in-support-for-the-monarchy-from-labor-voters.html
18/09/2022: Thanks Liz & goodbye to net zero. Fracking here we come: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/netzero-takes-a-hit-in-the-uk-fracking-is-on-and-could-eclipse-north-sea-gas/
18/09/2022: Well said Rafe, “Humanity has a destiny out amongst the stars, but we will not reach them if we allow ourselves to be crushed by this secret society of evil, inbred, globalist conspirator families who have been plotting and working towards the destruction of our nations and our enslavement for centuries. We can win this war of elites versus commoners, but only if everyone who knows these truths speaks out in every way possible to awaken those who remain oblivious to it all.” https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/17/what-is-happening-and-why/
18/09/2022: When communists engage in this level of cover up
you know there is much more to hide (Christo would have been proud) – I wonder
what the real GDP is, for example. Remember when the
18/09/2022: Trump may be the second most popular public
figure on the planet after Queen Elizabeth – but I notice there have been
conservative victories in
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17/09/2022: NASA finds organic matter ‘treasure’ on Mars: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/nasa-rover-finds-organic-matter-treasure-on-mars/
17/09/2022: Viv Forbes (and Geoffrey Chaucer) is so right we are ruled by ‘Parliaments of Fools’: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/our-mate-viv-forbes-on-a-nation-ruled-by-fools.html
17/09/2022: Who’s the king of the castle now? Watch out, the Indians are coming: https://www.thestreet.com/technology/bezos-is-about-to-lose-title-of-worlds-second-richest-man
17/09/2022: Big Brother never had mind control as powerful as the mobile phone and Tik Tok: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/the-worlds-biggest-stealth-propaganda-operation-is-conditioning-your-child-through-their-phone/
16/09/2022: Can anyone tell me what is going on here? I had always believed there was no such thing as a free lunch, but this certainly looks like it. There are lots of these devices. I assume the magnet would ‘go flat’ after a while? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sL-7pm__HXk
16/09/2022: Greenpeace founder Patrick Moore explains how the environment movement was hijacked: https://www.climatedepot.com/2022/09/08/prominent-scientist-dr-patrick-moore-backs-up-claim-that-there-is-no-climate-emergency/ On temperature change, Moore asserts that “the world has been warming since about the year 1700, 150 years before we were using fossil fuels..1700 was the peak of the Little Ice Age, which was very cold and caused crop failures and starvation…Before that, around 1000 A.D. was the Medieval Warm period when Vikings farmed Greenland…[And] before that, around 500 A.D. were the Dark Ages, and before that, the Roman Warm Period when it was warmer than today, and the sea level was 1–2 meters higher than today.”
16/09/2022: Tyranny in
15/09/2022: Are people finally starting to catch on to the fact that electric vehicles are a terrible idea? https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/09/down-with-electric-vehicles.php
“If every country achieved its stated ambitious electric-vehicle targets by 2030, the world would save 231 million tons of CO2 emissions. Plugging these savings into the standard United Nations Climate Panel model, that comes to a reduction of 0.0002 degree Fahrenheit by the end of the century.”
15/09/2022: This 31,000 year old amputee’s finding shatters so many notions about the past: https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/earliest-amputee-borneo-0017238
15/09/2022: The case for recriminalisation: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2022-09-09/lgbtqc-groomer-roundup-one-fifth-gen-z-now-queer-entire-2nd-grade-class
15/09/2022: And you thought you had a problem being white: https://news.yahoo.com/albino-hunters-accused-kidnapping-butchering-081821692.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9jaXRpemVuZnJlZXByZXNzLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAKHZ1e1ri7aa-AVTEM4An4qAGzRucvLkR64eEEQoq59zygh9vzKWyuatWwaIJK4-PE0UN7FWF7hf8PWi2Wx8v7Hds0NBSlqA7eaOvDHNru7UuHKw95mfg8d0ZYTwyNYpHrc6XVMANco0RMCB2pRVT8fDLkQ2l8DSKFob9-QaR358
14/09/2022: ‘Rings of Power’: We watched the first two episodes last night and found them surprisingly good (with some misgivings admittedly). I really like Galadriel. The visual feast, especially the NZ scenery is a delight: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/
14/09/2022: Is there a serial killer loose in the
14/09/2022: Good news indeed – we have needed to do this for a long, long time: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/good-news-out-of-canada/
14/09/2022: The Ukrainian counter-offensive is at least a propaganda victory so far: https://www.the-sun.com/news/6211083/russian-troops-surrendering-ukraine-helicopter-blasts-targets/
13/09/2022: I think this is a fair point, “There are only
nine meals between mankind and anarchy.” And that the current ‘energy crisis’
and ‘energy transformation’ will prove the point. I suspect we will have a military
takeover of
13/09/2022: 200 years since
13/09/2022: I would not have believed it but maybe the
Russians bit off more than they could chew in
13/09/2022: We must save the Great Nullarbor Coral Reef: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/corals-covered-australian-desert-maybe-they-will-grow-back-if-we-screw-in-the-right-light-globe/
12/09/2022: Just when I had a knee replacement they come up with a better option: https://scitechdaily.com/fixing-knee-pain-new-cartilage-substitute-is-better-than-the-real-thing/
12/09/2022: If there really are 70,000+ deaths from covid vaccines it ought to be investigated: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/group-doctors-scientists-professionals-34-countries-declare-international-medical-crisis-due-diseases-deaths-caused-covid-19-vaccines/
12/09/2022: The joys of electric car ownership: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/09/16-reasons-why-you-need-to-buy-an-electric-car/
12/09/2022: On the
11/09/2022: Electricity prices in the
11/09/2022: A big step forward towards sustained fusion in
11/09/2022: Why ‘personality tests’ are bunkum: https://iai.tv/articles/the-truth-about-the-myersbriggs-personality-test-auid-2235?_auid=2020
11/09/2022: Leave the kids alone for goodness’ sake: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/popular-preschool-animated-series-peppa-pig-introduces-lesbian-polar-bear-couple/
10/09/2022: Icebreaker’s merino wool caps are the best, and they are on special right now. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/09/08/best-deer-hunters-cap-best-ultralight-cap/
10/09/2022: What a piece of s—t Adam Bandt (and the Greens) is/are. Hopefully we shall soon see the last of them: https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/royals/greens-leader-slammed-over-queen-elizabeth-ii-tweet/news-story/2bb699604360612e86f76240796459dd
10/09/2022: Turns out the movement of heat outwards along the meridians is the largest driver of climate change and that ‘greenhouse gases’ have almost nothing to do with it: “Opposite to what is generally believed, when less energy is transported poleward the planet gets warmer. The planet warmed after 1850 due to a reduction in MT, followed by the increase in GHGs since the mid-20th century. While global warming is likely to continue over most of the 21st century, the rate is unlikely to increase, and might even decrease, disproving nearly every climate projection. Recent warming appears to be multicausal, caused by changes in solar activity and MT, besides GHGs. It is thus very unlikely that the decarbonization of the economy will have any significant effect on climate, although it could have a great effect on the transfer of wealth from some agents in the global economy to others, even if its total effect on wealth creation is negative.” Canute imitators are going to make us very poor however: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/09/04/the-sun-climate-effect-the-winter-gatekeeper-hypothesis-vi-meridional-transport-is-the-main-climate-change-driver/
10/09/2022: I think Tucker nails it here, “The British
Empire was not perfect, but it was far more humane than any other
ever. It’s gone now, barely even remembered. Queen Elizabeth II was the
last living link to a truly Great
When the
The British did give the world the Magna Carta and habeas
corpus and free speech. They helped end the transatlantic slave trade, as well
as the ritual murder of widows in
09/09/2022: Farewell you great lady, Lillibet. The very last Seekers’ song just released (for Judith’s memorial) is a fitting tribute I think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwhXSsjHz3k
09/09/2022: Who knew? The earliest boomerang was found in
09/09/2022: The (new) green solution to being cold – so much better than oil, gas and coal (presumably a bad translation - original is behind a paywall): https://news-universe.com/2022/09/07/europe-is-sacrificing-its-ancient-forests-for-energy/
09/09/2022: Having fun at the expense of the new Puritans: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2022/09/dont-eat-the-bugs/
08/09/2022: 10 More Environmentally Friendly Alternatives To Using Electricity: https://babylonbee.com/news/10-more-environmentally-friendly-alternatives-to-using-electricity
08/09/2022: Nigel Farage, Britain’s next PM – you can only hope: https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/nigel-farage-cowardly-conservatives-are-letting-the-marxist-woke-mob-destroy-our-free-speech-now-its-time-to-take-a-stand/news-story/ec2ee72fa158d346414edaaf2ee9e247 ‘
08/09/2022: Peter Smith is absolutely right: Labor and the Greens’ ‘Renewable Energy Plans’ are just insane. Read why – and weep: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/qed/2022/09/some-ohm-truths-about-the-great-green-fantasy/
08/09/2022: One big step to fight dementia: https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2022/09/06/step-count-dementia-risk-study/5831662487084/
07/09/2022: Just what I need: Robo-bug: A rechargeable, remote-controllable cyborg cockroach: https://techxplore.com/news/2022-09-robo-bug-rechargeable-remote-controllable-cyborg-cockroach.html
07/09/2022: One step closer to growing humans in a test-tube – but won’t we be replaced by AI soon anyway: https://theconversation.com/worlds-first-synthetic-embryo-why-this-research-is-more-important-than-you-think-188217
07/09/2022: The limbo rock of universities: Just how low can ‘university education’ go? https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/09/melbourne-uni-course-certificate-in-how-to-run-aboriginal-welcome-ceremony.html
07/09/2022: The price of lithium has risen 289% this year alone. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/lithium It has gone up from US$2000 a tonne in 2002 to over US$75,000 a tonne in July 2022 mainly fueled just by its (relatively small) demand in consumer electronics. It is rapidly becoming a ‘precious metal: Silver is $800,000 per tonne, copper $33,999, Nickel $21,000, Lead $2200 whilst Iron is $109! Such rises occur because things are rare and their production cannot be ramped up. Estimates are that it would take over 9,000 years to mine enough lithium (supposing deposits existed) to transform the world’s hydrocarbon cars into electric cars - but as they would need to be replaced again approximately ten years later this 9,000 years of effort would have to be reproduced again in ten years. Yet some countries are mandating electric cars in less than ten years time. Does anyone see how this is either sane or possible? I think this is akin to the C17th Dutch ‘tulip bubble’ and is mainly a vehicle for the rich to get even richer at our expense.
06/09/2022: An AI won an art competition – what’s next? https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/09/03/an-ai-program-won-an-art-competition-does-it-matter-n494347
06/09/2022: Just an accident of history that the world was saved for democracy – in reality few people value freedom – as we still see today: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/check-out-this-polling-data-on-wwii/
In contrast we have at least some good news out of
06/09/2022: I think this is good news but I am fearful of having the test – meanwhile I reel from the bad news this morning that one of my cousins has succumbed to this awful blight: https://scitechdaily.com/new-device-can-detect-alzheimers-17-years-in-advance/
06/09/2022: Just another of the contradictions of green policies: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/china_enslaving_uyghur_muslims_to_produce_the_solar_panels_we_import
06/09/2022: Something I did not know: Oil is a renewable resource. Many people do not realise that old oil and gas fields refill (or recharge) over time because much ‘fossil fuel’ is produced by abiotic natural processes within the earth – and will therefore never run out: https://www.educate-yourself.org/cn/oilfieldsrefilling10apr05.shtml & https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Are-Oil-Wells-Recharging-Themselves.html
Nothing in the renewable world will work without hydrocarbons: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/09/05/abundant-abiotic-hydrocarbons-and-useful-idiots/
05/09/2022: Camp chairs have been a thing for a long time: http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65004
05/09/2022: Green child Abuse. Thank you Neil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QnmuAmOgRA
05/09/2022: The ultimate horror movie: A ubiquitous digital panopticon. The greatest tyranny of all time is already being installed. Be very afraid: https://richardsonpost.com/harryrichardson/28340/the-scariest-movie-i-have-ever-seen/
05/09/2022: This was a common occurrence in 1929 as the magic bubble burst and a sense of reality re-established itself. Today the world is sitting on the biggest economic bubble in recent history with most of the US dollars ever printed having been in just the last handful of years: https://www.wnd.com/2022/09/bed-bath-beyond-executive-jumps-death-nycs-jenga-building/
04/09/2022: Kim Beazley Snr. in 1970: ‘When I joined the Labor Party, it contained the cream of the working class. But as I look about me now, all I see are the dregs of the middle class. When will you middle-class perverts stop using the Labor Party as a cultural spittoon?’ For many years now this has been my view exactly. I remember a night at an ALP meeting in Bendigo in just such a gentleman’s house (ie the ‘cream of the working class’) when I began to separate myself from it too, perceiving how the new political class who had never worked with their hands (or minds) to make themselves (or others) better disdained his modest achievements, disdained his working for one’s and society’s betterment - and offered simply redistribution and Government control as the only worthwhile goal. Today’s ALP is way Left of where the Communist Party of Australia was as I grew up. The Greens are even more evilly Left of them, perhaps even left of Mao & Pol Pot in that they would see most of humanity gone. Meanwhile the Chinese Communist Party is way to the Right of the ALP – I fear even to the right of today’s Liberal Party! Where can a working class Conservative’s vote go? Perhaps the Liberal Democrats?
04/09/2022: Just imagine that: corals have been surviving worse things for countless millions of years: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/its-almost-like-corals-have-been-doing-this-for-millions-of-years-90-bleached-but-recovered-in-just-two-years/
04/09/2022: With a 92% efficacy against death from covid the ban of ivermectin ought to be viewed as a crime against humanity. Dan and like demagogues should be tried and hanged for this crime: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/09/people-need-held-accountable-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene-attacks-biden-regime-blocking-life-saving-treatment-ivermectin-covid-19/
04/09/2022: “If only
03/09/2022: Edwardian
03/09/2022: If you can’t afford a boat, how about a giant pumpkin: https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/crop-production/squash-record-nebraska-pumpkin-grower-paddles-846-lb-pumpkin-missouri
03/09/2022: It’s not about Right and Left … It’s about Right
and Wrong. No. I don’t think Greens should be allowed to kill eagles to ‘save
the planet’. This is the
03/09/2022: If this is how bad things have to get to ‘save the world’ imagine what would happen if people realised it was all b-----t: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/09/energy-pain-the-richest-countries-in-the-world-may-not-eat-hot-meals-people-start-burning-their-bills-in-the-street/
02/09/2022: Best Tarp Seam Stitch: If you are joining ultralight waterproof material such as Membrane Silpoly as I am just now to make a new version of my 7 x 7 Poncho Multi Tarp this stitch seems to work better than anything I have ever come across before. Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/09/02/best-tarp-seam-stitch/
02/09/2022: Malcolm Roberts takes aim at the cost of the green madness: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/26/aussie-senator-malcolm-roberts-slams-false-net-zero-inflation-claims/
02/09/2022: The world needs ditchdiggers, too: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37958-A-Living-Wage.html#extended
02/09/2022: Longtermism – another interesting ‘philosophy’ which ‘reasons’ that someone else’s rights are more important than your own. You will be hearing more about this. Is this actually any different from communism: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/why-effective-altruists-fear-the-ai-apocalypse/ar-AA11hiIN
01/09/2022:
01/09/2022: You think it won’t happen here? Inflation over 20% in the
01/09/2022: First
31/08/2022: Problems charging your EV. You will note (RACV figures) that the cheapest and simplest option will see your car plug in for nearly 12 hours drawing an additional 2.4-3.7 kW per hour, or with additional wiring you can charge at 7kW per hour for 6 hours or even 22kW per hour for 2 hours. All of you will see immediately that whichever way you cut it you will be using over 40 Kw more electricity per day to charge your EV. Our electricity bill tells me that the average household consumption (at present) is 10 kW (I person household and 16 kw (2 & etc) so charging an EV is an enormous increase in household electricity consumption (2-4 times at least!) that has to be produced basically from ‘thin air! Is this the greatest ‘pea and shell’ game you ever saw? An all of this electricity will have to be provided at night (when there is no solar)! https://www.mynrma.com.au/cars-and-driving/electric-vehicles/charging/ev-home-charge
31/08/2022: Posted this in 2017. Nothing about it has changed; indeed the situation has only got worse: Understand this: Government is force; it is not charity, avuncular, earth mother. Its role is not to succour and support. It is to control and defend. To think otherwise is perversion. This is our prime duty: ‘Support yourself’. Crying out to Government for ‘support’ is always babyish - just some ghastly selfish theft, an insisting that one’s fellow men and women ought support you because you won’t support yourself. Whence comes this ‘owing’, this ‘debt’? I can understand it in relation to care for the elderly (perhaps) as they (surely?) can be expected to have spent a lifetime working, maybe building up some ‘social credit’ (but might they not also have been expected to have put away a little for a rainy day – for just such a certain eventuality as old age)? But the great majority of those who clamour for ‘support’ just want to suck at the public teat because it is there and it is easy, while ‘work’ is a four letter word best not discussed. They are ‘owed’ nothing. A debt presumes a corresponding credit - which they have not built up. Indeed the ‘great’ dependent unwashed clamourers have it the wrong way around: having been raised on a lifetime diet of dependency, eg free education, health care, welfare, public housing, all sorts of publicly provided services and checks and balances, law and order, defence, museums, public transport…the list is almost endless…they have a debt to repay: eg by service to their society: by joining our defence forces, working for the dole, caring for the disabled, child minding, cleaning working folks’ homes, or etc…They have already been well paid for doing nought! Our dusky brethren who clamour for more are the least deserving in this line-up. ‘They’ have enjoyed better than two and a quarter centuries of dependency, of living off the public teat. Way past time they started paying off that debt, instead of shrieking for more!
31/08/2022: The death stats are interesting: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/death-stats-for-israel-are-not-good/ & https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/excess-deaths-rise-in-germany-too-peaking-in-the-same-months-medical-experiments-peak/
31/08/2022: Still enormous doubt over who’s winning or
losing in the
30/08/2022: Must Watch - Neil Oliver continues to call the elites out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTA90R9FMoQ
30/08/2022: Gone are the days when you could just slip a new engine in with a morning’s work and at a cost of a couple of day’s wages (as I did with my Subies for over thirty years). A new EV battery will cost you more than you normally pay for a new car: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/29000-to-replace-batteries-in-chevy-volt-thanks-obama/
30/08/2022: Progress. Instead of growing food they will make this stuff out of food. The people who used to eat the food will just have to adapt to going without. Dieting is good for you, right? https://www.producer.com/news/renewable-diesel-poised-to-overtake-biodiesel/
30/08/2022: Is there another way? I doubt this woman’s views would go down well with the current push to create ever more crèches (al la 1984?): https://americanmind.org/features/rule-not-by-lies/lean-out/?utm_source=pocket_mylist
29/08/2022: 7 x 7 Poncho Multi Tarp: This is an addendum to the post Secrets of Shelter. I know some of you just didn't believe my claims about the 7' x 7' tarp so I dug out my old one for a bit of a photo shoot. This 7' x 7' tarp can be used as a ground or hammock shelter or as a poncho - and weighs just over 120 grams. Read more: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/08/28/7-x-7-poncho-multi-tarp/
29/08/2022: I know Paul Keating said the same many years ago but “Hard-Working Plumber Looking Forward To Paying For His Neighbor’s Gender Studies Degree”. Another Greens (commie) policy of course like freezing rents for two years. Duh: https://babylonbee.com/news/hard-working-plumber-looking-forward-to-paying-his-for-his-neighbors-gender-studies-degree
29/08/2022: “The future belongs to the people who show up,
as they say. It seems doubtful that will be the greenies.” https://nypost.com/2022/08/26/a-new-devil-of-a-problem-for-planet-earth-vanishing-humans/
29/08/2022: Modern warfare has become more and more like a video game. I know it has always been horrific but some of this technology seems to give soldiers very little chance: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/videos-ground-war-ukraine-ukraine-attacks-thwarted/
28/08/2022: Remember ‘The Precautionary Principle’ which the
Left trots out when they don’t want to do something (however sensible)? In one
sense it has something going for it – we should not launch into a major change
unless it can be proven that it will work! A ‘trial’ or a ‘prototype should be
adopted first and its results assessed soberly. This was done before we adopted
electrification (believe it or not). Cost
28/08/2022: ‘We the people’ – what a great leader of the free world Ronald Reagan was. We the people desperately need new conservative leaders like him, indeed a new conservatism before there is nothing left to conserve. Make the time to listen to this farewell speech, one of his finest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjECSv8KFN4&t=763s
28/08/2022: If the recent floods did not topple Xi maybe the current drought will? Anyway, something must: https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/the-extreme-heatwave-wreaking-havoc-across-china/
28/08/2022: Tell me why all this ought not be utterly illegal: https://thepostmillennial.com/trans-parents-of-10-year-old-trans-model-plan-for-minors-gender-surgeries-at-age-16
27/08/2022: Secrets of Shelter: I deem that shelter is the most important primary need which you can supply yourself. You certainly must master the secrets of shelter.
No doubt all of you have heard about Maslow's 'hierarchy of needs'. You will (perhaps) note that amongst the four 'physiological' needs he lists is 'Homeostasis', ie being able to maintain a constant temperature, something you may take for granted being a mammal - but that only means you have not been put to the test! Read More: https://www.theultralighthiker.com/2022/08/26/secrets-of-shelter/
27/08/2022: Why we have biosecurity – this is how a rabid
fox behaves. Della and I both had our rabies shots before we went to
27/08/2022: Is there anything more you need to know about ‘The Voice’ than that Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine are against it and Malcolm Turnbull is in favour: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/woke_elites_racially_abuse_warren_mundine_for_opposing_the_voice
27/08/2022: Sound planning- maybe we should just wait 29,000 years? “To make enough wind turbines, solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles to replace fossil fuels for (just) 20 years, the world would need just under one billion tonnes of nickel.
In 2019, the world only mined 2.4 million tonnes of nickel – meaning it would take around 400 years to produce enough to go net zero at current rates of production.
The same situation faces copper miners.
To replace fossil fuels with renewables, the world would need over 4.5 billion tonnes of copper.
But again, the world only mined 24 million tonnes of copper in 2019 - meaning it would take 189 years to produce enough copper to go net zero at current rates of production.
The situation gets even more dire when it comes to lithium, cobalt and rare earth metals.
It would take 9920 years to produce enough lithium to go net zero at current rates of production.
It would take 1733 years to produce enough cobalt to go net zero – most of which would come from Chinese-owned, child mines in the Congo.
In fact, for germanium - a very rare but very important element required for renewable energy technologies – it would take over 29,000 years to produce enough germanium required to go net zero.
So, going "green" will require the biggest mining boom in history.” – and the Greens will be in favour of that, won’t they? https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/it_will_take_400_years_to_produce_enough_nickel_to_run_the_world_on_renewable_energy
26/08/2022: The Disappearance of Delicious Edible Apples. The fresh food situation has always been worse in country areas for some reason. Unless you have your own fresh produce what is available in the (few) supermarkets always seems to be sourced from the same wholesaler (I assume) and generally is about the standard of stock food. Often poor quality stock food at that. Apples, my favourite daily fruit, is a case in point. None of the supermarkets seems able to present the fresh apples in a chiller so that even if they had been top quality before, after a day or so of sitting on a warm shelf being picked over by customers they are just about inedible. I usually try to get around this by shopping for them in the mornings just after they have restocked the shelves and I try to pick from the bottom layer. In the past this usually got me a handful of edible apples – but no more. For the last several months the apples have been parlous. They appear to have been tumbled in a cement mixer. The extent of the bruising means that just about none of the apple is edible. Does anyone have a solution?
26/08/2022: Must get one of these for Della: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/the-perfect-gift-for-your-hot-conservative-wife/
26/08/2022: Here’s the result of
26/08/2022: Dire: Macron warns that the world as we knew it has ended. We certainly have a big fight on our hands to preserve our freedom and lifestyle: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/macron-warns-end-abundance-carefree-time/
25/08/2022: Wonnangatta Murders: So, police claim to have
‘further evidence’ against Lynn but neither he, his lawyer Dermot Dan (whom I
know) nor the public knows what it is after nearly a year since he was arrested
which frankly is not good enough. The alleged ‘firearms evidence’ is
tantalising. Apparently we will have to wait until January to learn more. Terrible. Meanwhile a presumed innocent man (like Pell) is
in gaol. I strongly suspect that they still don’t have enough to actually
charge this bloke (who may indeed be the culprit, I admit). The
fact that they have been unwilling to provide his barrister with the
surveillance material or the ballistics’ evidence (after nearly twelve months –
evidence which they ought to have had before they arrested him), indicates to
me that there is nothing there. I suspect the ballistics will come down
to some spent shells near the campsite (where we know
25/08/2022: 1971 was the crucial year when everything
started to go wrong. Until then I could buy quite a nice house in
24/08/2022:
24/08/2022: Do you still remember when churches never burned
down – or had ‘faulty wiring’ problems? I certainly do. Here in
24/08/2022: A weird world our WEF masters want us to live in. I’m glad I won’t be around to see it: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/world-economic-forum-recommends-humans-become-cyborgs-implant-brain-chips-solid-rational-reasons-children-microchipped/
24/08/2022: A big ‘Hurrah’ to Ron De Santis, “Never ever give up. We must fight the Woke in our schools, fight the Woke in our businesses. We must fight the Woke in government agencies. We can never ever surrender to government agencies.” https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/ron-de-santis-fires-a-rocket-at-corporate-woke-media/
23/08/2022: Is this a life-saver or not? Perfect and peelable hard-boiled eggs every time: http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/37921-Perfect-and-peelable-hard-boiled-eggs.html
23/08/2022: Yarmuk: the day Islam swallowed the West. Read it and weep: https://pjmedia.com/columns/raymond-ibrahim/2022/08/20/today-in-history-islam-swallows-up-the-western-world-after-the-battle-of-yarmuk-n1622689
23/08/2022:
23/08/2022: About that ecar…Just a for example, “Car manufacturers admit that there is only enough lithium for 14 million ecars while the World Economic Forum says the world needs 5 billion to get to Net Zero.”: https://spectator.com.au/2022/08/lithium-lies/
23/08/2022: “I’ve
already seen the best of
22/08/2022: When ‘unknown cause of death’ becomes the leading cause of death (up sevenfold): https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/comedy-break-jp-sears/
22/08/2022:
22/08/2022: Is James Webb going to kill the Big Bang? I have been reading a lot about this lately, for example that folks claim to have already identified galaxies which are (far) older than the universe or that others they are seeing are themselves too old to have begun after the universe did. A fundamental change in physics/cosmology may be about to begin: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/08/17/astronomers-looking-at-webb-what-if-the-big-bang-didnt-happen-n490341
22/08/2022: Are young women just more gullible, is PC just for girls, or do they yearn to be ‘victims’: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/political-correctness-is-for-girls-the-bubble-of-woke-has-a-grip-on-young-women/
In a similar vein: https://babylonbee.com/news/church-puzzled-by-low-attendance-at-its-sit-around-and-talk-about-your-feelings-mens-conference
21/08/2022: Poem for today. (We have had a grandchildren’s sleepover at our house).
The Childrens' Hour
Henry
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the Children's Hour.
I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending the broad hall stair,
Grave
And Edith with golden hair.
A whisper, and then a silence:
Yet I know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall!
By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall!
They climb up into my turret
O'er the arms and back of my chair;
If I try to escape, they surround me;
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen
In his Mouse-Tower on the
Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!
I have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeon
In the round-tower of my heart.
And there will I keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away!
21/08/2022: Yes, we can take our power back: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/19-us-states-fight-back-against-blackrock-the-political-climate-police-disguised-as-a-monster-investment-fund/
NB: Blackrock is spending big on useless batteries in Oz: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/like-a-banker-belt-n-road-plan-blackrock-give-australia-batteries-we-dont-need-with-esg-strings-attached/
21/08/2022: Wise words from Prof Ian Plimer (as usual) about where all the methane comes from but also, “Climate change cannot be understood using computer models that attempt to predict the future with incomplete information and invalid assumptions. The past is the key to the present and destruction of history, archaeology, and geology in the climate wars can only lead to hardship.” https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/rain-rain-go-away/ NB Biden’s new Inflation Reduction Act (amongst a litany of other evils) gives the EPA the ability to tax methane at $900 per tonne starting 2024
21/08/2022: Let’s just vote to continue to be one nation,
not divide
20/08/2022: "I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened." Mark Twain
20/08/2022: Back in the 1950s
20/08/2022: A major fallacy of the EV thing is thinking electricity is both ‘free’ and ‘clean’. Everything has a cost (not least the quadruple cost of buying an EV – maybe double that when you consider their likely lifetime) but the huge environmental (and human lives) cost of making and then recycling them (well there is no plan actually) almost certainly means that they would not be ‘carbon neutral’ or ‘free’ even if they gave them away and electricity cost nothing. But it currently costs approx 50 Euros to charge a standard 100kw EV battery (which will soon rise by 320%) - and that will get you about 200 km! It gets worse after that! https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/18/charging-electric-cars-like-spilling-liters-of-petrolhidden-losses-during-charging-are-huge/
20/08/2022: Our ABC, the porn channel. Shut them down: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/their-abc-outdoing-themselves-with-this-voyeuristic-rot.html
19/08/2022: Laser spacecraft propulsion is coming. “On the eventual upper end, a full scale system (50-100 GW) will propel a wafer-scale spacecraft with a meter class reflector (laser sail) to about c/4 in a few minutes of laser illumination allowing hundreds of launches per day or 100,000 missions per year. Such a system would reach the distance to Mars (1 AU) in 30 minutes, pass Voyager I in less than 3 days, pass 1,000 AU in 12 days, and reach Alpha Centauri in about 20 years.” https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2022/08/technology-to-make-interstellar-missions-possible-and-affordable.html
19/08/2022: How can three declining trend periods add up to an increasing trend? Maths is weird: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/17/fun-with-trends/
19/08/2022: Yes, the Libs have to dump Guy and damned soon, but have they got a true conservative they can put in his place? Please come back Jeff Kennett, Bernie Finn: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/matthew-guy-is-literally-history/
19/08/2022: Seems to me that if
18/08/2022: The best female swimmer in the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sgjc29QCGo
18/08/2022: Maybe there are no higher or lower creatures: https://www.sapiens.org/biology/evolution-march-of-progress/
18/08/2022: The new Concorde – imagine being able to fly
return to
18/08/2022: So, why would the presence of foot and mouth
disease in
17/08/2022: Good News – hearing aids may soon get to be ‘self-fitting’ and much cheaper: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/16/23307974/hearing-aids-over-counter-fda-apple-bose
17/08/2022: Frankly I am shocked that ‘the average person tells four lies a day’. I was always taught never to lie: https://www.studyfinds.org/average-person-tells-four-lies-daily/
17/08/2022: Interesting Rasmussen Poll: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/interesting-poll-from-rasmussen/ Here’s Tucker’s take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74lDvZ1IPj4 If the FBI (etc) really believed Trump still had the nuclear codes they would hardly have waited 18 months to act.
17/08/2022: Here is a very big whoopsie about human produced CO2 (which I admit I hadn’t spotted. Humans simply cannot have ‘caused’ the increase in CO2 which (if it ) has occurred because human CO2 is only 5% of all sources of CO2 (and clearly ‘stays’ in the atmosphere for exactly the same amount of time as ‘natural’ CO2) so it cannot possible add up to 32% as the IPCC (greens etc) claim: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/16/the-impact-of-human-co2-on-atmospheric-co2-summary/
Also note: Arctic Sea Ice Extent Reaches 12-Year Mid-August High: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/13/doomsday-climate-predictions-meltdown-arctic-sea-ice-extent-reaches-12-year-mid-august-high/
16/08/2022: Only the modeled climate responds. Why won’t the real climate play along and boil us like frogs: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/doomed-planet/2022/08/a-clear-case-of-hot-hotter-hoodwinked/
16/08/2022: With her popularity now at 30% hopefully we will soon see the back of ‘the wicked witch of the West’ aka Jacinda Ardern. You would hope to see the same thing happening to all the vile socialists we have running things over here too…if only so many of the ‘conservatives’ weren’t trying to beat them at their own game: https://www.rebelnews.com/jacinda_ardern_tipped_to_be_dumped_as_pm
16/08/2022: Nuclear fusion achieved in the lab at Lawrence Livermore: https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2022/08/13/breakthrough-ignition-confirmed-at-california-fusion-reactor-n489445
16/08/2022: We spent more money on education, remember? Maybe not good value for money. These people vote too: https://moonbattery.com/education-system-produces-staggering-ignorance/
15/08/2022: The escalating prices of (especially) lithium and cobalt make EVs much more expensive than conventional cars. The petrol F-150 for example costs US$33K today but its EV version will be at least $20K more expensive. And you have to accept that a couple of three poor people somewhere have died in order to produce it! https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/cars/question-of-the-day/qotd-why-arent-evs-becoming-more-affordable-44496610
Good one: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/wisdom-of-the-ages.html
15/08/2022: First they claimed that they were after menus and other silly things but now they have gone even sillier and claim Trump had the nuclear war codes still in his pockets: https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/08/code-red-for-the-deep-state.php
15/08/2022: In the
15/08/2022: Vegetarianism is not so great after all (particularly if you are a woman): https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/11/vegetarian-women-fracture-hips-study-bone-healthv & https://nypost.com/2022/08/13/plant-based-diet-is-not-so-virtuous-or-healthy-says-new-book/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter
14/08/2022: Short season crops, ie things which produce a harvest in as little time as possible are something you should be giving serious thought to. You need to be collecting seeds from such plants (not F1 hybrids from which no useful seeds can be collected). Many varieties of all the common vegetables were long ago developed for use in colder climes or to produce multiple crops in warmer ones. ‘Diggers’ is a good source. The mandated increases in the cost of energy (and the really desperate coming shortage if urea) will mean that food will become scarce or very expensive. We are building two greenhouses which will give us an abundance of ‘summer’ crops over winter and really heat dependent crops (eg melons) over summer here in Southern Vic where it is difficult to grow such things.Our vegie garden is also completely planted out already and will be expanded – as will our orchards. I notice greenhouses and seeds are already in short supply. When the urea finally dries up and the trucks stop bringing the produce down from the North things will get tough. Time to get out into the back yard with a hoe.
You can get your plants started early with a $10 propagator next to a window. Here you see several varieties of tomato, eggplant and capiscum already up. They will be in the greenhouse in a bit over a week. Some will produce crops by the end of September!
14/08/2022: The Ukrainians may be taking awful losses but they are still fighting back it seems: https://www.politico.eu/article/ukraine-long-anticipate-southern-counteroffensive-begin-bang-crimea/
14/08/2022: History almost always beats ‘science’, but let’s
hope that the worst times are behind us because we are now better able to
adapt. It was much warmer than today in the not-s0-distant past. They used to
grow wine in
14/08/2022: After 33 years the fatwa has finally come for Salman Rushdie for the terrible sin of pointing out that the ‘perfect book’ has some truly evil passages in it and that the ‘perfect man’ was anything but – ie a mass murderer and child rapist. I applaud Macron’s statement of support, “For 33 years, Salman Rushdie has embodied freedom and the fight against obscurantism. He has just been the victim of a cowardly attack by the forces of hatred and barbarism. His fight is our fight; it is universal. Now more than ever, we stand by his side.”: https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/author-salman-rushdie-stabbed/news-story/6821ed8e0b9bcf40bba3ad8c3e1eff51
13/08/2022: South Coast Track New Zealand:
We will definitely take side trips to Long Point
(Lighthouse) Hut and the Slaughter Burn Hut on
the way to/from the
13/08/2022: The temperature data – indeed the whole idea behind it – is faked. It is just not possible to establish an ‘average’ temperature. Walk around your own back yard with a thermometer and you will easily find areas where the temperature varies by 5-10C on any given day then tell me how ‘scientists’ can establish the average temperature of the earth within a hundredth of a degree and determine how much it is rising or falling. What we all know is that the temperature around us varies during the course of any single day by at least 20C – and sometimes by over 40C, yet everything (magically) survives: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/09/numbers-tricky-tricky-numbers-part-2/
13/08/2022: “We just don’t need the vast majority of the population.” This is the way the global elites actually think, deeming themselves enormously more important (for having meetings) than the folks who grow and deliver our food, care for the elderly or clean toilets etc. Now with their war on farming, energy etc they plan to get rid of that vast mass of unnecessary people who will (if they succeed) all be gone in one season – after which they will virtuously sigh, ‘It was not our fault’, as Nazis always have: https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2022/08/10/wef-adviser-yuval-harari-we-just-dont-need-the-vast-majority-of-the-population-in-todays-world/
Stalin called the farmers ‘the enemies of the people’. By expropriating them, the state took control of food production. 7 million starved to death. A century later, the WEF is opening the ‘war on farmers’. https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2022-8-6-net-zero-is-not-just-for-carbon-emissions-now-its-nitrogen
13/08/2022: This snake Kean (and Matthew Guy et al) are what is wrong with the Liberal Party. A conservative Party has to represent what ordinary Australians think and want: https://www.advanceaustralia.org.au/green_matt_kean_to_guide_nsw_liberals_to_electoral_disaster
It’s not just a leadership change that’s needed though, but a complete change of direction. As its slogan a re-awakened Liberal Party ought to adopt Tony’s old slogan, ‘Climate Change is Crap’: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/matthew-guy-and-a-history-of-lastminute-leadership-switches/news-story/a2ea8d3ee3542f9c4d3df18c9db992cc
12/08/2022: It would be good if we spent more time talking about important matters as eminent physicist Sir Roger Penrose does here: https://www.whyarewehere.tv/people/roger-penrose/
12/08/2022: The Greens are no different from this today. Nazis. They have all sorts of policies which would starve (at least) half the world’s people to death while at the same time advocating all sorts of animal libber and national parks nonsense. "At the edge of a forest, German soldiers point their guns at rows of naked people who follow the Jewish religion. Among them are young mothers clutching their babies. The shots echo through the woods and the dead bodies fall into the ground. Down the road, while this is happening, their German army comrades are busy establishing nature walks and bird sanctuaries and planting trees. The Nazis conducted horrific experiments on children (I have seen footage so upsetting it can’t be shown on TV) but at the same time they banned medical experiments on animals. The same Nazi monsters who committed crimes of unimaginable barbarity also advocated vegetarianism, organic agriculture, forest preservation and homeopathic healthcare. How can we possibly explain this? What was the connection between the inhuman brutality of the Nazis and their gushing idealization of ‘Nature’?" http://www.martindurkin.com/blogs/nazi-greens-inconvenient-history
12/08/2022: The Great Barrier Reef is nearly as big as Victoria ie it is pretty hard to miss, yet it did not exist (where it is now) during the last Ice Age – just a little while ago, and will not during the next, not so far away now either. The sea level was over 50 metres lower then. Corals exist in shallower water than that. So when folks tell you ‘the science is settled’ re some political decision they want make ie to control your behaviour in some way eg whether you can go for a drive in the country, you should be very skeptical indeed. Scepticism used not to be thought a very bad thing not so long ago but rather a default mental state which helped one to navigate to the truths of the world: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/healthy-reef-defies-dubious-science/
11/08/2022: Tony Abbott could well have said, ‘Apres Moi le deluge’: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/08/labors-climate-bill-is-an-economic-precipice/
11/08/2022: Just imagine the urban mega fires we will have as EVs spread – and the toxic pollution downwind (far worse than any CO2): https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/100-evs-mysteriously-destroyed-in-fire-in-india/
11/08/2022: Time to go back to your old stainless steel frypan: https://nypost.com/2022/08/09/forever-chemicals-linked-to-liver-cancer-in-first-human-study/
11/08/2022: Good Lord – maybe Trudeau is Castro’s son. He certainly behaves like it anyway. In similar news Albo admits he is a bastard (Who knew?) but who is his real father? A prize will be offered: https://medium.com/@leibowitt/of-course-fidel-castro-is-justin-trudeaus-dad-nobody-has-debunked-anything-4db6fc8a9042
10/08/2022: A fine birthday present from Bunnings. We went in to Midvalley to have a birthday lunch and thought to buy some seedlings for the vegie garden from Bunnings while we were there. As well we scored this excellent load of 4” x 2” x 8’ steel quite free - probably over $500 worth. Well on the way to our next shed right there:
10/08/2022: Way back in 2013 I wrote this. The situation has become worse since then. The Green aim to reduce the world population by half or three-quarters is moving swiftly into place spearheaded by the attack on Nitrogen and farming: Green Deaths per annum amount to millions worldwide: Malaria (where the unnecessary & illegitimate ban on DDT cost over a million lives pa for thirty+ years), support for biofuels (200,000+ pa from starvation as we burn food rather than allow the poor to eat it), opposition to food irradiation (100s of 1000s pa from food poisoning pa), opposition to nuclear power (deaths from radon, Carbon 14, coal mining etc), opposition to GM crops, diversion of money (from eg health, shelter, food) to global warming ‘mitigation’, opposition to Western farming methods (& especially in the Third World = mass starvation), support for national parks before people…These folk are simply the most evil bastards ever (making Stalin, Hitler, Mao etc look like patsies). And it is not just people whom the greens murder in their millions. Animals and plants are destroyed by their policies in their billions: millions of hectares have been destroyed to make way for palm oil plantations and generally to grow ‘Biofuels’. Other millions of hectares are routinely destroyed by wildfires because of their insistence on a completely ‘hands off’ approach to forest management. At the same time vast numbers of creatures are destroyed by introduced vermin such as foxes, cats, pigs which they will not allow to be shot. Add millions of wildlife deaths pa from windfarms and from paving over land with solar collectors & etc… Astonishing that 8% of voters say they will still vote for their policies. How can so many folk fail to be able to distinguish between good and evil?
10/08/2022: Why we should make Ivermectin available to all.
This article is by a Professor of Pathology from my old University who really knows
his stuff. Currently nearly 100 people a day are dying in
10/08/2022: The
10/08/2022: Alexandra Marshall’s article on ‘immortal’
nuclear energy is a ‘must-read’. I am not sure how we will implement it in
09/08/2022: A bad week for female vocalists. Olivia gone now too. I used to run into her for coffee in the student union lots at Newcastle Uni back in the 1960s – this was before she was famous, but just one of the senior staff’s daughters. Her father Bryn Newton-John shared my love of motorbikes. She was just the same age as me. Makes me think about ‘time’s winged chariot’ I can tell you.
09/08/2022: Your Vitamin D levels are crucial: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/handy-tip-vitamin-d-deficiency-causes-chronic-inflammation-which-means-aging-dementia-bad-stuff/
09/08/2022: This is ridiculous and obscene racist cant. How much of ‘our’ country do we need to give away to just one group: https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2022/08/how-to-give-away-half-a-continent/
09/08/2022: Much as the CCP wants to frame
09/08/2022: Remember how Tony Abbott won the largest
majority in
08/08/2022: The Seekers – the beginning. I just can’t help but post yet another tribute to Judith and her amazing band mates. I know there will not be any Parliamentary Condolence Debate as with Archie Roach. Have we lost what it is to be quintessentially Australian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZf41UudAbI&t=184s
08/08/2022: If
08/08/2022: Civil disobedience against the ‘Green Blob’
begins in the
Meanwhile, the Greens here want us to be conquered by
communist
08/08/2022: The earth’s thermostat is just wonderful. Just as the human body temperature does not get warmer as the temperature rises, so too the earth sheds heat in the tropics as the temperature rises keeping the average world temperature within a very narrow .5C range. Amazing. Thanks Willis: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/07/putting-it-into-reverse/
07/08/2022: Farewell Judith Durham 1943-2022. What a voice. Like most of my generation this is how I will always remember her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mpd_9l9w4RI
07/08/2022: Curiosity – what a great little rover: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/05/ten-years-of-curiosity-on-mars/
07/08/2022: Just like the bee apocalypse, the monarch butterfly apocalypse that wasn’t: https://www.wired.com/story/is-there-good-news-for-monarch-butterflies-scientists-disagree/
07/08/2022: The Greens – turning the West into the
06/08/2022: Time for some good news: https://nypost.com/2022/08/03/cognitive-decline-can-be-avoided-with-simple-everyday-exercises-new-study-suggests/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&utm_source=NYPTwitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow
06/08/2022: On the origin of TANSTAAFL: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/08/27/free-lunch/
06/08/2022: Snowy 2.0 (like all the batteries) will be a dismal failure - and now at $22 billion for just 2000 megawatts (Think Hazelwood)! If they really want to replace coal (or petrol) the will have to go nuclear. That is all: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/08/03/how-helpful-is-snowy2-0/
06/08/2022: Just maybe communism is on the way out in
05/08/2022: One tough old gal. Nice shooting – this is the way to deal with crooks: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/shoot-arm-off-robbers-pick-wrong-socal-liquor-store-rob-video/
05/08/2022: I suspect that if fake meat to save the planet failed because no-one wanted to buy it, fake cars (EVs) will fail too for the same reason: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/planet-saving-fake-meat-burger-meets-hitch/
05/08/2022: I like Viv’s idea of a Repeal Party.
05/08/2022: The
04/08/2022: Personally I love apples, but here’s how they got such a bad press: https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends-europe/forbidden-fruit-0017084
04/08/2022: Jacinta Price is a gem. Hers is the only type of ‘Voice’ needed: https://www.theepochtimes.com/virtue-signaling-wont-solve-problems-faced-by-indigenous-community-nt-senator_4633153.html
04/08/2022: Why only once a year? Breakfast has a big effect on my gender. No wait a minute. I meant my waistline: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/germans-will-be-able-legally-change-their-gender-once-year
04/08/2022: Albanese’s 43% means everything – in case you didn’t know, and/or you voted for it? So it it not ‘just’ electricity but cars, houses, farming – everything. I can just bet too that none of the ‘savings’ Della and I have already made will be counted. We will have to ‘enjoy’ new suffering. The fact that we were forced to give up half of one (long cleared) farm to trees back in 2003 will not count. Or that we have not bought a new car since 1990 (the begin date of all this, rememeber?) but keep repairing 1990s cars which actually use less fuel per kilometer (and did not have to be made and made again since then) will not count. The hundreds and hundreds of trees (usually around 100 a year) we have already planted on our remaining 30 acres (or on other farms) will not count. The fact that we have doubled over and over the productivity of our land and our sheep will not count. We will have to start over. We (and everyone else) will be trying our best to cheat on these absurd targets just so we can survive. The Greens are forcing lunacy on all of us. We must rebel against this. This is the future that the World Economic Forum wants for you – it makes Brave New World look like freedom: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/08/update-saudi-prince-offers-glimpse-dazzling-500-billion-smart-city-future-will-nothing-happy/
03/08/2022: 78 Years since the Polish Uprising – just one more good reason why you should not give up your guns: https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/long-live-the-warsaw-uprising/
03/08/2022: When vast unexplained geophysical happenings like this can occur we should hardly worry about what the human effect on the climate might be: https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/earth-just-started-spinning-faster-ever-and-scientists-dont-know-why
03/08/2022: This looks so promising: https://scitechdaily.com/at-last-an-effective-new-treatment-for-chronic-back-pain/
03/08/2022: Nancy Pelosi – Wow! People are never “wholly bad nor good’ (Milk Wood): https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/08/an-important-and-well-written-opinion-piece-under-nancy-pelosis-name-on-visit-to-taiwan.html
02/08/2022: A Government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always depend on the support of Paul! Will
02/08/2022: I suspect David Archibald is right: large ships and tanks are archaic: https://spectator.com.au/2022/07/we-will-win-chinas-war/
02/08/2022: More links between ancient
02/08/2022: Coal production just keeps going up: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/08/might-be-more-coal-burned-in-2022-than-any-other-time-in-human-existence/
Meanwhile oil just refuses to run out – wherever we are allowed to poke a hole in the ground ‘black gold’ pops up: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/27/guyana-suriname-oil-bonanza-to-boost-economies-help-meet-global-demand/
01/08/2022: The Terminator is coming to a battlefield near you: https://www.zerohedge.com/military/ukraine-unveils-mini-terminator-ground-robot-equipped-machine-gun
01/08/2022: Bring it on - Soon we will be able to buy these things to provide carbon-free power to a few thousand homes safely: https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/07/us-regulators-will-certify-first-small-nuclear-reactor-design/
01/08/2022: The ‘great’ reset: Turning off the heat.
01/08/2022: People are daily bombarded with the advantages of socialism, but that is all bunk. The free market is in reality the great liberator. Take these words of wisdom from its outstanding proponent Milton Friedman, “The most important single central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit…Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own…Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property” https://www.ocregister.com/2022/07/31/remembering-the-great-economist-and-champion-of-liberty-milton-friedman/
31/07/2022: NASA’s beautiful Jupiter imagery: https://www.cnet.com/science/space/nasa-spacecraft-images-watercolor-vortices-near-jupiters-north-pole/
31/07/2022: James Lovelock (father of Gaia) came to be a supporter of nuclear power: https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/07/why-are-we-so-afraid-of-nuclear-power-2021/
31/07/2022: This was what salvation meant once, “I have set my bow in the clouds, and it shall serve as a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.” It is wrong to steal other people’s goods. Make your own, or at least do no evil – but that is not what is happening. Great evil is what is happening - in the name of good. Rainbows and gaiety (and especially childhood) ought not to have been so debased. Well said Cassie: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/28/the-other-half-of-the-rainbow/
Peta Credlin’s take is also worth a read: https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/peta-credlin-relentless-push-for-inclusivity-is-what-divides-us/news-story/8d1bd0a0ae3a809dd1365b62666f3015
31/07/2022: I think it’s the biggest insider trading scheme and most useless piece of virtue signaling, white elephant hugging nonsense of all time, but I acknowledge you might make (or lose) a fortune out of discreet investments in it: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/30/guest-post-speedbox-electric-vehicles-redux/
30/07/2022: Stunning Footage Of Killer Whales Taking Down A Great White Shark – they are both horrible monsters. I would not want to be in the water with them: https://brobible.com/culture/article/first-ever-footage-orcas-killing-great-white-shark-stunning/
30/07/2022: “Coffee, tea or Bonox?” Maybe you are old enough to remember the ad? In any case it is still available, and it is still delicious. Having a cup right now. Curiously it no longer has instructions on the jar for using it as a drink, but adding a generous teaspoon to a cup of boiling water seems about right!
30/07/2022: In quarter two this year, we were paying an average price of $264 per megawatt hour instead of the $30 we used to pay before they blew up Hazelwood. And it will only get worse.The green dream is just insane, “It would have been cheaper just to build a whole new power plant last year.”: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/blistering-electricity-prices-it-was-the-quarter-the-whole-market-broke-and-australia-spent-12-7b/
30/07/2022: The WEF and all your ‘friendly’ leftie pollies want to destroy your car. Give them the boot: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/world-economic-forum-urges-public-eliminate-ownership-private-vehicles/
29/07/2022: If only you got paid for it…decades after retiring from teaching Della and I still frequently dream about it. I doubt any of our ex-students (some of whom are nearing their 70s) get any subliminal benefit from this nocturnal behaviour– though I admit to feeling a desire sometimes to still correct their spelling and expression in their Facebook posts!
29/07/2022: How can this even happen? Well, whole Ice Ages have occurred when CO2 was much higher than it is today: https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/28/climatologists-embarrassed-increase-in-global-co2-levels-accompanied-by-arctic-sea-ice-growth/
29/07/2022: A big ‘hats off’ to these seven guys. Gays might (or not) be ‘proud’ of their particular bent but there is absolutely no reason anyone else should be, quite the reverse. It is only twenty years since homosexuality was officially deemed a mental disorder and a crime in many jurisdictions, something which the consequences of having taken a more lenient approach to it and related behaviour has been shown was a bad idea which will have to be reversed in future – as has already been done in some countries which have been shocked by the excesses: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/australian-rugby-league-players-boycott-game-forced-wear-lgbt-themed-rainbow-jerseys/
For example, when a public health expert has gay unprotected sex with multiple men over a weekend, contracts monkeypox and gonorrhea but blames ‘the system’, are you sure you voted for gay marriage: https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/07/soros-open-society-foundation-employee-brags-sex-multiple-men-pride-event-blames-government-catching-monkeypox-gonorrhea/
I liked this guy’s ‘take’ on the Manly events: https://newcatallaxy.blog/2022/07/28/the-other-half-of-the-rainbow/
29/07/2022: Remembering two heroes of the Left who lost their lives on this day 228 years ago. Saint-Just & Robespierre. Today’s leftists (Bandt, Albanese, Andrews etc) are no better - and also care only about unbridled power and control, “A nation generates itself only upon heaps of corpses” – never mind ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions,’ rather ‘devil take the hindmost.’ Every day around the world thousands of people are dying as a result of leftist policies (scores in Oz) – and it will get worse: https://fee.org/articles/the-two-monsters-of-the-french-revolution-who-were-consumed-by-power-and-lost-their-heads-on-the-same-day/
Bastiat had it better, “Be responsible for ourselves. Look to the State for nothing beyond law and order. Count on it for no wealth, no enlightenment. No more holding it responsible for our faults, our negligence, our improvidence. Count only on ourselves for our subsistence, our physical, intellectual, and moral progress!”
28/07/2022: Scientists Unveil Periodic Table Of Genders: “The nation's leading scientists unveiled a new periodic table of genders to help everyone keep track of the evolving gender spectrum. Experts are recommending the table be rolled out to schools across the nation and added to each state's curriculum for grades 9-12. The gender table features 114 genders in addition to a wild card space that represents the limitless imagination of the human mind.”: https://babylonbee.com/news/scientists-unveil-periodic-table-of-genders
28/07/2022: How renewables are killing
It will be a very grim winter over there this year. Many will die: https://joannenova.com.au/2022/07/uk-lights-out-for-winter-warning-12m-people-will-be-in-energy-poverty/
28/07/2022: No https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/atheist-labor-senate-president-wants-to-dump-the-lords-prayer.html and Double No: https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/07/no-just-no-double-no-nfw-lest-we-forget.html
28/07/2022: What really drives the climate? Well done (again) Viv, “Man’s coal, cars and cattle are puny compared to what nature can do.” : https://richardsonpost.com/vivforbes/27900/volcanos-oceans-and-weather/
Meanwhile this is where any warming is coming from – a complete corruption of (climate) science): https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/07/27/new-surface-stations-report-released-its-worse-than-we-thought/
27/07/2022: Kemi would definitely have been the membership’s choice for PM, but the membership and the people never get to choose. Such is democracy: